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Good evening,

I'm writing a program for anyone to use. Anyone interested please feel free to use the code. Replace * with your addon. All you have to do is zip your settings(userdata/addon_data/plugin,*.*) and add them to Maintenance/* folder in Super Favourites. All works great except for the last bit where I want to delete the zip file. This is important as it checks if a zip file is present in specified folder.
I get an error

Code:
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!

                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>

                                            Error Contents: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, bool found

                                            Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "/home/usuario/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/*update/*update.py", line 71, in <module>

                                                checkifthereisupdatezip() , removezip()

                                              File "/home/usuario/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/*update/*update.py", line 20, in removezip

                                                shutil.rmtree(yesremove,)

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 228, in rmtree

                                                if os.path.islink(path):

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 142, in islink

                                                st = os.lstat(path)

                                            TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, bool found

                                            -->End of Python script error report<--

here is the code

Code:
import os

import xbmc

import xbmcgui

import zipfile

import shutil

import time

import datetime

import smtplib

#IMPORT MODULES

updateziplocation = xbmc.translatePath('special://home/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/*update/plugin.video.*.zip')

*userdata = xbmc.translatePath('special://home/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.*')

now = datetime.datetime.now()

runtime = now.strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M")

#functions

def removezip():

    updateziplocation = xbmc.translatePath('special://home/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/*update/plugin.video.*.zip')

    yesremove = os.path.exists(updateziplocation)

    shutil.rmtree(yesremove, ignore_errors=False)

def checkifthereisupdatezip():

    now = datetime.datetime.now()

    runtime = now.strftime("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M")

    yeszip = os.path.exists(updateziplocation)

    if yeszip:

        xbmc.executebuiltin("Notification(Yes There is an Update, Over-writing previos Settings,()")

        old*settings = xbmc.translatePath('special://home/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.*')

        shutil.rmtree(old*settings, ignore_errors=False)

        xbmc.executebuiltin("Notification(Old * Settings Removed, Installing new Settings,()")

        fh = open(updateziplocation, 'rb')

        z = zipfile.ZipFile(fh)

        for name in z.namelist():

            z.extract(name, old*settings)

        fh.close()

        xbmcgui.Dialog().ok(

        "Thankyou for using * Update",

        "Your * settings have been updated",

        "Read the news feed for information about",

        "when * settings are next updated")

    else:

        YESNOWINDOW = xbmcgui.Dialog().yesno(

        "There are no new settings at the moment",

        "ONLY IF...* has stopped working",

        "Would you like to send a message to Admin",

        "Asking for an update?",

        "No Thanks",

        "Yes Please"

        )

        if YESNOWINDOW:

            mailserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.mail.com",587)

            mailserver.ehlo()

            mailserver.starttls()

            mailserver.login('somemail','somepwd')

            mailserver.sendmail('somemail','somemail', ' * Update Request ' + runtime )

            mailserver.close()

            xbmcgui.Dialog().ok(

            "Thankyou for using * Update",

            "An Email has been sent to Admin",

            "Requesting * settings update",

            "")

        else:

            xbmcgui.Dialog().ok(

            "Thankyou for using * Update",

            "Nothing on your system has changed",

            "Read the news feed for information about",

            "when * settings are updated next")

checkifthereisupdatezip() , removezip()

Can anyone please shed light on the error. Thanks a million.

yesremove is a boolean (True / False), it's not a path.

most likely you want to use this:

Code:
if yesremove:

    shutil.rmtree(updateziplocation, ignore_errors=False)

(2015-11-24, 00:06)ronie Wrote: [ -> ]yesremove is a boolean (True / False), it's not a path.

most likely you want to use this:

Code:
if yesremove: shutil.rmtree(updateziplocation, ignore_errors=False)

Thank you ronie as always great help. should i put

Code:
else:

    some code here to complete the operation

(2015-11-24, 00:06)ronie Wrote: [ -> ]yesremove is a boolean (True / False), it's not a path.

most likely you want to use this:

Code:
if yesremove: shutil.rmtree(updateziplocation, ignore_errors=False)

Hi Ronie,

thanks for your help, almost there now. Ill post full code once its working 100% for anyone to use.
I'm now getting this in the log.

Code:
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!

                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.OSError'>

                                            Error Contents: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/home/usuario/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/*update/plugin.video.*.zip'

                                            Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "/home/usuario/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/*update/*update.py", line 78, in <module>

                                                removezip()

                                              File "/home/usuario/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/*update/*update.py", line 22, in removezip

                                                shutil.rmtree(updateziplocation, ignore_errors=False)

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 239, in rmtree

                                                onerror(os.listdir, path, sys.exc_info())

                                              File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 237, in rmtree

                                                names = os.listdir(path)

                                            OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/home/usuario/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/*update/plugin.video.*.zip'

                                            -->End of Python script error report<--

The snippet of code it belongs to is this

Code:
#functions

def removezip():

    updateziplocation = xbmc.translatePath('special://home/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/*update/plugin.video.*.zip')

    yesremove = os.path.exists(updateziplocation)

    if yesremove:

        shutil.rmtree(updateziplocation, ignore_errors=False)

    else:

        xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(10000,return)")

and here

Code:
#execute

checkifthereisupdatezip()

time.sleep(3)

removezip()

The folder /Maintenance/*update
and the file /Maintenance/*update/plugin.video.*.zip

are both 100% there.

Thanks a million

with shutil.rmtree() you can only delete directories.
if you want to delete a file, use os.remove() instead.

SOLVED

Code:
def removezip():

    updateziplocation = xbmc.translatePath('special://home/userdata/addon_data/plugin.program.super.favourites/Super Favourites/Maintenance/itvupdate')

    os.chdir(updateziplocation)

    files=glob.glob('*.zip')

    for filename in files:

        os.unlink(filename)

Thank you ronie for your help

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