How to copy a file from a network share to local disk with variables?
network-programming, python, share
Solution
The `r` used in your first code example is making the string a "raw" string. In this example, that means the string will see the backslashes and not try to use them to escape `\\` to just `\`.
To get your second code sample working, you'd use the `r` on the strings, and not in the `copyfile` command:
source_path = r"\\mynetworkshare"
dest_path = r"C:\TEMP"
file_name = "\\myfile.txt"
shutil.copyfile(source_path + file_name, dest_path + file_name)
Problem
If I use the following line: ``` shutil.copyfile(r"\\mynetworkshare\myfile.txt","C:\TEMP\myfile.txt") ``` everything works fine. However, what I can't seem to figure out is how to use a variable with the network share path, because I need the 'r' (relative?) flag. The end result I would imagine would be something like: ``` source_path = "\\mynetworkshare" dest_path = "C:\TEMP" file_name = "\\myfile.txt" shutil.copyfile(r source_path + file_name,dest_path + file_name) ``` But I have had no luck with different variations of this approach.