Hi,
I'm completing the Python lessons on YouTube that Google posted. At the end
of section 2 of day 2, there is a task to identify files then put them in a
zip file in any directory. The code is from the 'solution' folder, so it's
not something I wrote. I suspect I have a problem with PATHS or environment
variables. I'm new to programming in something as advanced as Python, but I
do okay with VBA - so I just feel like there's a setting up issue somewhere.
I'm on Windows 7, tried running this in Idle and from the command line.
These two work perfectly.
def get_special_paths(dirname):
result = []
paths = os.listdir(dirname) # list of paths in that dir
for fname in paths:
match = re.search(r'__(\w+)__', fname)
if match:
result.append(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(dirname, fname)))
return result
def copy_to(paths, to_dir):
if not os.path.exists(to_dir):
os.mkdir(to_dir)
for path in paths:
fname = os.path.basename(path)
shutil.copy(path, os.path.join(to_dir, fname))
This third one does not.
def zip_to(paths, zipfile):
"""Zip up all of the given files into a new zip file with the given
name."""
cmd = 'zip -j ' + zipfile + ' ' + ' '.join(paths)
print "Command I'm going to do:" + cmd
(status, output) = commands.getstatusoutput(cmd)
# If command had a problem (status is non-zero),
# print its output to stderr and exit.
if status:
sys.stderr.write(output)
sys.exit(1)
My command is this: >>> copyspecial.zip_to(paths, 'zippy')
But something goes wrong and it spits this out:
'{' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
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