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pythonshutil
Jr795
Jr795

Reputation: 799

shutil.copystat() FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I'm trying to use shutil.copystat() to copy a file. This is my code:

import os
from os import path
import shutil

def main():
  if path.exists("textfile.txt"):
    src = path.realpath("textfile.txt")
    dest = src + ".bak"
    shutil.copystat(src, dest)
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()

However, this results in the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/x/Development/Python/Exercise Files/Ch4/shell_start.py", line 30, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/x/Development/Python/Exercise Files/Ch4/shell_start.py", line 19, in main
    shutil.copystat(src, dest)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.5/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/shutil.py", line 375, in copystat
    lookup("utime")(dst, ns=(st.st_atime_ns, st.st_mtime_ns),
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I have printed the paths and both are correct. My file structure is as follows:

/Ch4
    /shell_start.py
    /textfile.txt

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 621

Answers (2)

Tim Roberts
Tim Roberts

Reputation: 54668

shutil.copystat doesn't copy files, it only copies the status bits between two existing files. What you want is shutil.copy2.

Upvotes: 1

Corralien
Corralien

Reputation: 120391

Replace:

shutil.copystat(src, dest)

by:

shutil.copy2(src, dest)

If you want to use shutil.copystat, do:

shutil.copy(src, dest)
shutil.copystat(src, dest)

Read the doc of shutil.copy2

Upvotes: 1

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