I'm trying to write a script to copy files in my RaspberryPi, from my Desktop PC.
Here is my code: (a part)
print "start the copy"
path_pi = '//192.168.2.2:22/home/pi/Stock/'
file_pc = path_file + "/" + file
print "the file to copy is: ", file_pc
shutil.copy2(file_pc, path_pi + file_pi)
Actually I have this error: (in french)
IOError: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: '//192.168.2.2:22/home/pi/Stock/exemple.txt'
So, how could I proceed? Must I connect the 2 machines before trying to copy?
I have tryed with:
path_pi = r'//192.168.2.2:22/home/pi/Stock'
But the problem is the same. (And file_pc is a variable)
Thanks
Edit:
Ok, I found this:
command = 'scp', file_pc, file_pi
p = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
But no way to have the output... (work with Shell=False)
shutil.copy2()
works with local files. 192.168.2.2:22
suggests that you want to copy files over ssh. You could mount the remote directory (RaspberryPi) onto a local directory on your desktop machine (sshfs
) so that shutil.copy2()
would work.
If you want to see the output of a command then don't set stdout=PIPE
(note: if you set stdout=PIPE
then you should read from p.stdout
otherwise the process may block forever):
from subprocess import check_call
check_call(['scp', file_pc, file_pi])
scp
will print to whatever places your parent Python script prints.
To get the output as a string:
from subprocess import check_output
output = check_output(['scp', file_pc, file_pi])
Though It looks like scp
doesn't print anything by default if the output is redirected.
You could use pexpect
to make scp
think that it runs in a terminal:
import pipes
import re
import pexpect # $ pip install pexpect
def progress(locals):
# extract percents
print(int(re.search(br'(\d+)%[^%]*$', locals['child'].after).group(1)))
command = "scp %s %s" % tuple(map(pipes.quote, [file_pc, file_pi]))
status = pexpect.run(command, events={r'\d+%': progress}, withexitstatus=1)[1]
print("Exit status %d" % status)
Do you have SSH enabled? Something like this could help you:
import os
os.system("scp FILE USER@SERVER:PATH")