Question

I’ve the following function to fetch a file from the Subversion repositorio:

def getFileSVN(remoteFile, localFile):
    remoteFile = SVN_URL + '/' + remoteFile
    command = '{0} export {1} {2}'.format(SVN, remoteFile, localFile)
    ret = subprocess.call(command.split())
    if ret == 0:
        return True
    else:
        return False

The function is called with:

ret = getFileSVN(branches/branch/somefile, /tmp/tmpdir/somefile)

But it always fails with:

svn: Can't open '/tmp/tmpdir/tempfile.tmp': No such file or directory

I can’t find where my error is.

Answer 1

Does tmpdir exist? I don’t use SVN myself but it could be that it doesn’t create the folder before trying to create the file.