Copying Screenshots using Python

shutil.move(from, to) should work.

The to-directory must exist and you must have full write permission (e.g. a folder in c:\Program Files does not work, because it is access protected).

I tried doing shutil.move and shutil.copyfile but i get an error
File "C:\Program Files\Sikuli X\sikuli-script.jar\Lib\shutil.py", line 52, in copyfile
 IOError: (13, 'EACCES', to-directory)
I know it is an access issue, I have provided all the permissions to this folder. Any thoughts??

Thanks,
Viral Bhatt

If you get this error, the access rights are definitely not ok.

try to copy the file by hand and see what happens.

I tried copy/paste by hand and it works fine.. Not sure what is the issue?

pls. paste the relevant code.

f=capture(region)
shutil.move(f,"C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop")

--- "User" must be the name of the currently logged in user.

--- The second parameter wants a filename, so

shutil.move(f,"C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\some-name.png")

works

Hi,

I tried doing what you said it works but it requires two '\\' marks before the User........i.e
C:\Documents and Settings\\vbhatt\Desktop\somefilename.png.............but the name which is returned by capture() method has only 1 '\' mark. Let me know if u can find any work around this.....

Sorry, for being faulty :-(

In a filename string back slashes must either be escaped (doubled) or you may use a raw string r"some text that is taken as is".

shutil.move(f,r"C:\Documents and Settings\ vbhatt\Desktop\some-name.png")