Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found

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Subject	Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this modification to copyFile do the job of moving the file? I haven't written a test yet.
>
> Thanks for catching the indentation for the helper functions.
>
> def copyFile(src, dest):
>> >         try:
>> >             shutil.rename(src, dest)
>> >         # eg. src and dest are the same file
>> >         except shutil.Error as e:
>> >             print('Error: %s' % e)
>> >         # eg. source or destination doesn't exist
>> >         except IOError as e:
>> >             print('Error: %s' % e.strerror)

You shouldn't need shutil here; just os.rename(src, dest) should do
the trick. But be careful! Now you have a function which moves a file,
and it's called "copyFile". If its purpose changes, so should its
name.

Have fun!

ChrisA

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New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 05:02 -0700
  Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 23:24 +1100
    Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 05:46 -0700
      Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:06 +1100
        Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 06:28 -0700
          Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:57 +1100
      Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-04-02 20:03 -0400
        Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 17:14 -0700
          Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-04-03 11:33 -0400
      Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 11:12 +1100
  Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-04-02 14:26 +0200
    Re: New to Programming: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found Saran A <ahlusar.ahluwalia@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 05:51 -0700

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