Re: [pygtk] Expected Behaviour of gnomevfs.XFER_NEW_UNIQUE_DIRECTORY

["Gian Mario Tagliaretti" <gianmt gnome org>]

2007/4/23, John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>:

Hi John,

> I am trying to copy files using gnomevfs using xfer_uri
>
> I am unable to perform a copy from
>
> foo/file1 to
> foo/bar/file1
>
> without first creating the bar directory. I thought that
> gnomevfs.XFER_NEW_UNIQUE_DIRECTORY created all needed directories for
> the copy - this does not seem to be the case however.
>
> Is this a bug or a lack of my understanding? (see example code below)

since I don't think it's a problem of the python bindings I've cc'd
gnome-vfs-list, maybe you can get more help.

> import gnomevfs
>
> f1 = gnomevfs.URI("/home/john/Desktop/foo/bar.txt")
> f2 = gnomevfs.URI("/home/john/Desktop/baz/Cheese/bar.txt")
> f3 = gnomevfs.URI("/home/john/Desktop/baz/bar.txt")
>
> mode = gnomevfs.XFER_OVERWRITE_MODE_REPLACE
>
> print "Transfering File %s -> %s" % (f1, f3)
> result = gnomevfs.xfer_uri(f1, f3,
>                     gnomevfs.XFER_NEW_UNIQUE_DIRECTORY,
>                     gnomevfs.XFER_ERROR_MODE_ABORT,
>                     mode)
>
> try:
>     print "Transfering File %s -> %s" % (f1, f2)
>     result = gnomevfs.xfer_uri(f1, f2,
>                         gnomevfs.XFER_NEW_UNIQUE_DIRECTORY,
>                         gnomevfs.XFER_ERROR_MODE_ABORT,
>                         mode)
> except gnomevfs.NotFoundError:
>     print "STUPID GNOMEVFS BUG"

cheers
--
Gian Mario Tagliaretti