🔒 Trying to copy a file to a folder, but error says file doesn't exist

[lunar matrix]

print(local_path+"/src/reg_gen.py") #returns C:\Users\user\Desktop\prog\Repositories/program/src/reg_gen.py
print(path+"/registry")             #returns C:/Program Files/program/registry 
try:
    subprocess.call(f'copy {local_path+"/src/reg_gen.py"} {path+"/registry"}')
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
    print("Error: " + str(e)) #returns FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The file cannot be found

Traceback says:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\user\Desktop\prog\Repositories\program\install.py", line 41, in <module>
    subprocess.call(f'copy {local_path+"/src/reg_gen.py"} {path+"/registry"}')
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py", line 345, in call
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py", line 966, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py", line 1435, in _execute_child
    hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,

[sharp parrot]

@lunar matrix

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[lunar matrix]

Both of the files exist, at least according to my browser and folder explorer since they open the file/folder

I'm not sure why this happens

[brave meteor]

oh no no no don't run a subprocess to copy files, use the shutil module

[pulsar spindle]

yeah, I'm not sure why you're using a CLI command just to copy a file.

(the reason why it's failing, I believe, is because subprocess.call takes arguments separately, not as one string - the way you wrote, it tries to call the executable 'copy {local_path+"/src/reg_gen.py"} {path+"/registry"}' with no arguments)
(oh, and also I think copy might be a builtin cmd command and not an executable at all, which'd require shell=True)

[brave meteor]

maybe it's a part of larger program, we don't know that

[pulsar spindle]

(Also, use pathlib, it's easy to mess up while manually concatenating strings representing paths.)

[verbal carbon]

This. The first path result has mixed backslashes and forward slashes, idk how windows handles it - i know it can handle all-forward slashes, but mixed probably can cause a problem

[lunar matrix]

hmm I see

I'll use shuntil

[sharp parrot]

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