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emredesu
emredesu

Reputation: 325

The file is used by another process error followed by unexpected behaviour

I'm trying to create a .txt file and move it to a specified folder using the code below, but I get PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: 'C:\Users\Emre\Desktop\testbot\asdf\testuser.txt'

this error which is followed by the script creating a txt file in both the directory the script is running and the directory I wanted shutil to move the txt file to. What should I do? Thanks in advance.

    import shutil
    file = open("{}.txt".format(source), "w")
    file.write("username = {}\n".format(source))
    file.write("user_points = 200\n")
    file.close
    shutil.move("C:\\Users\\Emre\\Desktop\\testbot\\asdf\\{}.txt".format(source), "C:\\Users\\Emre\\Desktop\\testbot\\asdf\\users")
    self.bot.say(channel, "You have been successfully registered, {}!".format(source))

Upvotes: 2

Views: 541

Answers (1)

jez
jez

Reputation: 15349

Your code says

file.close

when it should say

file.close()

Since you are just "mentioning" the close method rather than actually calling it, the file is not getting closed. And because it is still open, you will not be able to move it.

Note that the best practice for opening files is to use a context manager:

with open("{}.txt".format(source), "w") as file:
    file.write("username = {}\n".format(source))
    file.write("user_points = 200\n")

shutil.move( ...

Then the file will get automatically closed when you exit the with clause for any reason—so you don't need to worry about closing it explicitly, even if you want to return early or raise an exception.

Upvotes: 3

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