Folder Missing But No confirmation

Question

Ok, Hi everyone, this is my code to delete a specified folder, It is cross platform compatible and designed for Kodi. I've had help from the devs there but there is a bit of code missing, more information at the bottom of the code.

    import xbmcgui
    import xbmc
    import os
    import shutil

    TARGETFOLDER = xbmc.translatePath('special://home/userdata/addon_data/01')
    yesnowindow = xbmcgui.Dialog().yesno("This Will Delete a folder","Click yes to delete","Click No to exit")
    NOOPTION = xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(10000,return)")


    if yesnowindow:
        os.path.exists(TARGETFOLDER)
        if os.path.exists(TARGETFOLDER):
            shutil.rmtree(TARGETFOLDER),  xbmc.executebuiltin("Notification(Folder has been deleted, All done,()"), xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(10000,return)")
        else: 
            NOOPTION

If Yes button is pressed and TARGETFOLDER does not exist, I want it to do this code, I know it must have to do with os.path.exists

and in Lamens terms

if os.path.exists(TARGETFOLDER): shutil.rmtree(TARGETFOLDER), and if os.path.exists(TARGETFOLDER) = false then

    xbmc.executebuiltin("Notification(Ok, All done,()")

Thanks for any help you can give me.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 17 '15 at 00:40

I don't know how crossplatform this is, but to me your question screams for try/except. Perhaps you can flesh this out to suit your needs:

import shutil
my_folder = 'foobar'
try:
    shutil.rmtree(my_folder)
    print 'folder deleted'
except OSError, e:
    the_error = str(e)
    if '[Errno 20]' in the_error:
        print my_folder, 'is not a directory!'
    elif '[Errno 2]' in the_error:
        print my_folder, 'did not exist!'
    else:
        print the_error

Don't do those tests using strings. Use the `errno` module. – jwilner May 17 '15 at 01:24 — jwilner, May 17 '15 at 01:24

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 17 '15 at 01:32

based off your example code and what I understand from the xbmcgui docs:

import xbmcgui
import xbmc
import os
import shutil

TARGETFOLDER = xbmc.translatePath(
    'special://home/userdata/addon_data/01'
    )
YESNOWINDOW = xbmcgui.Dialog().yesno(
    "This Will Delete a folder",
    "Click yes to delete",
    "Click No to exit")


if YESNOWINDOW:
    _MSG = None
    if os.path.exists(TARGETFOLDER):
        try:
            shutil.rmtree(TARGETFOLDER, ignore_errors=False)
            xbmc.executebuiltin("Notification(Folder has been deleted, All done,()")
            xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(10000,return)")
        except OSError as rmerr:
            _MSG = ("Error with delete dir: {}".format(rmerr))
        except Exception as err:
            _MSG = ("Error with XBMC call: {}".format(err))
    else:
        _MSG = ("Folder {} does not appear to be a directory"
                .format(TARGETFOLDER))
    if _MSG:
        xbmc.executebuiltin("Notification({},()".format(_MSG)) # ***
        xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(10000,return)")

try this and report back what is borked. I didn't have a text box that I could get the xbmc libs on to verify this.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 17 '15 at 16:05

THANKYOU, yep it works great one thing was a , missing in line 27 after {}

_MSG = ("Folder {} does not appear to be a directory"

to dispaly the notification properly.

I've uploaded the code to pastebin http://pastebin.com/BS3VQLbb

with comments on each line. It would be great if anyone has a chance to take a look to see if I'm understanding the code correctly.

I do have a couple of questions about the code, can I ask them here? as it seems I'm not allowed to ask for help with it. If its ok to ask please let me know. Thanks again,

Folder Missing But No confirmation

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