Thanks a ton. For the record I did read the 'command' module help page, but
must have skipped over the 'Platforms: Unix' and 'Deprecated' parts. I
successfully got it to work with the subprocess module, but I really
appreciate you filling out the rest with the sys.stderr.write(stderrdata). I
certainly would have stumbled over that.
-BJH
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Ben Hunter <bjameshun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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