Trouble with shutil python

[Louigi]

Hi,

I'm trying to get some python code to copy a video file from one location (on the pi's SD card) to another (a box sync cloud storage folder). I am trying to use the shutil.copy function but am have problems of which I'm not sure of. The internet seems to suggest some byte or unicode issue? Note: line 71 is the below, the file is an executable and I am using sudo before command.

Python code:
shutil.copy("/tmp/motion/Video-_1.avi", "/home/pi/box/Private/MotionVideos")

result from comms over putty:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/media/USBHDD1/PiCloud/movie_end.py", line 71, in <module>
shutil.copy("/tmp/motion/Video-_1.avi", "/home/pi/box/Private/MotionVideos")
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 120, in copy
copymode(src, dst)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 91, in copymode
os.chmod(dst, mode)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/home/pi/box/Private/MotionVideos/Video-_1.avi'

Does anyone know what this possibly might be. This is very frustrating!!!

[gkreidl]

This looks like a permission problem. Who's the user owning the files in "/tmp/motion"?

Perhaps
chmod +rw /home/pi/box/Private/MotionVideos
might help.

[Louigi]

Hi gkreidl,

When I type:
ls -l /tmp/
I get
drwxr-xr-x 2 motion motion 24576 Feb 4 20:25 motion
drwx------ 2 pi pi 4096 Feb 1 10:34 ssh-np8bGhpl234Q

I am logged in as pi. I've tried changing the permission using what you said on /tmp/motion, all the videos in /tmp/motion and /home/pi/box/Private/MotionVideos. Yet I still get the same error. I am also running "sudo python script" etc. Any ideas?