Problems opening a file in a shared dir

[luke14free]

Hello,
I'm using Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 for a work.
I need to copy a file from shared dir to my pc. This is my file location.
\\NOTEBOOK\\Sha redDocs\\Musica \\Musica campione\\a.wma
I tried to use os.system and open:

open("\\NOTEBOOK\\SharedDocs\\Musica\\Musica campione\\a.wma","r").read()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
    open("\\NOTEBOOK\\SharedDocs\\Musica\\Musica campione\\a.wma","r").read()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\\NOTEBOOK\\SharedDocs\\Musica\\Musica campione\\a.wma'

And system returns nothing...But nothing happens too. (in fact cmd tells me that the folder path is unknown). I've got all the right privileges, because using explorer I can get my file.
Thank you,
Luca

[rogerlew]

It will work if you "map" the network share.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/maintain/mapdrive.mspx

[STM]

Hello,
I'm using Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 for a work.
I need to copy a file from shared dir to my pc. This is my file location.
\\NOTEBOOK\\Sha redDocs\\Musica \\Musica campione\\a.wma
I tried to use os.system and open:

open("\\NOTEBOOK\\SharedDocs\\Musica\\Musica campione\\a.wma","r").read()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
    open("\\NOTEBOOK\\SharedDocs\\Musica\\Musica campione\\a.wma","r").read()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\\NOTEBOOK\\SharedDocs\\Musica\\Musica campione\\a.wma'

And system returns nothing...But nothing happens too. (in fact cmd tells me that the folder path is unknown). I've got all the right privileges, because using explorer I can get my file.
Thank you,

it s just a guess, but try writing the open call like this:

open(r'\NOTEBOOK\SharedDocs\Musica\Musica campione\a.wma','r').read()

the way you wrote it may have problems with escape sequences
let me know if that was the problem

[ilikepython]

Hello,
I'm using Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 for a work.
I need to copy a file from shared dir to my pc. This is my file location.
\\NOTEBOOK\\Sha redDocs\\Musica \\Musica campione\\a.wma
I tried to use os.system and open:

open("\\NOTEBOOK\\SharedDocs\\Musica\\Musica campione\\a.wma","r").read()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
    open("\\NOTEBOOK\\SharedDocs\\Musica\\Musica campione\\a.wma","r").read()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\\NOTEBOOK\\SharedDocs\\Musica\\Musica campione\\a.wma'

And system returns nothing...But nothing happens too. (in fact cmd tells me that the folder path is unknown). I've got all the right privileges, because using explorer I can get my file.
Thank you,
Luca

I'm not sure but the problem might be because of the space in the path. Try calling it like this:
[code=python]
open/os.system('"\\N OTEBOOK\\...... \\a.wma"')
[/code]

[ghostdog74]

demo

>>> import os
>>> os.path.join("c:\\","test","file with space.txt")
'c:\\test\\file with space.txt'
>>> os.path.exists (os.path.join("c:\\","test","file with space.txt")) 
True
>>> f=open(os.path.join("c:\\","test","file with space.txt"))
>>> f.read()
'qweqwd'
>>> f.close()

ensure that you have a valid drive letter assigned to your mapped drive.

[luke14free]

Problem solved using os.system and win32api.execut e. I wasn't able to map drives because the program works on more than 30pcs...it was kinda impossible...
Thanks for help,
Luce