File permissions script vs shell

[jdlists]

I'm running python on windows and have a program that watches a
directory and acts on files as they come into the directory. After
processing is complete, i delete the file, or in this case attempt
to....

In the script version I repeatedly get OSError exceptions stating
permission denied when trying to delete or rename

My exception print out...
Files system said no: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
u'D:\\Data\\00-0C-41-DD-87-E5.xml'

But i can go into the python shell and execute...

fileString = 'D:\\Data\\00-0C-41-DD-87-E5.xml'
import os
os.unlink(fileString)

and the file deletes fine

Any ideas? This is on my development windows xp box and i'm the only
user.

Thanks
Jeff

[Fredrik Lundh]

jd*****@gmail.com wrote:

I'm running python on windows and have a program that watches a
directory and acts on files as they come into the directory. After
processing is complete, i delete the file, or in this case attempt
to....

In the script version I repeatedly get OSError exceptions stating
permission denied when trying to delete or rename

My exception print out...
Files system said no: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
u'D:\\Data\\00-0C-41-DD-87-E5.xml'

But i can go into the python shell and execute...

fileString = 'D:\\Data\\00-0C-41-DD-87-E5.xml'
import os
os.unlink(fileString)

and the file deletes fine

Any ideas? This is on my development windows xp box and i'm the only
user.

did you close the file correctly after processing it ?

f = open("somefile.txt", "w")
import os
os.remove("somefile.txt") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'somefile.txt' f.close()
f = open("somefile.txt", "r")
os.remove("somefile.txt") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'somefile.txt' f.close()
os.remove("somefile.txt")

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[jdlists]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

jd*****@gmail.com wrote:

I'm running python on windows and have a program that watches a
directory and acts on files as they come into the directory. After
processing is complete, i delete the file, or in this case attempt
to....

In the script version I repeatedly get OSError exceptions stating
permission denied when trying to delete or rename

My exception print out...
Files system said no: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
u'D:\\Data\\00-0C-41-DD-87-E5.xml'

But i can go into the python shell and execute...

fileString = 'D:\\Data\\00-0C-41-DD-87-E5.xml'
import os
os.unlink(fileString)

and the file deletes fine

Any ideas? This is on my development windows xp box and i'm the only
user.

did you close the file correctly after processing it ?

f = open("somefile.txt", "w")
import os
os.remove("somefile.txt") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'somefile.txt' f.close()
f = open("somefile.txt", "r")
os.remove("somefile.txt") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'somefile.txt' f.close()
os.remove("somefile.txt")

</F>

That was correct...i started to see it just after posting, the open
file was hidden behind the 4Suite library via the FromUri method.
Reading the xml file as a string and passing it to fromString instead
and closing the file myself solved this.

Jeff