Errno 13 Permission denied Python

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In python  I am currently experimenting with what I can do with open command  I tried to open a file  and got an error message  Here s my code   open r C  Users      Desktop File1     My error message was   PermissionError   Errno 13  Permission denied   C   Users        Desktop  File1    I looked on the website to try and find some answers and I saw a post where somebody mentioned chmod  1  I m not sure what this is and 2  I don t know how to use it  and thats why I ve come here

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If nothing worked for you  make sure the file is not open in another program  I was trying to import an xlsx file and Excel was blocking me from doing so

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The problem here is your user doesn t have proper rights permissions to open the file this means that you d need to grant some administrative privileges to your python ide before you run that command   As you are a windows user you just need to right click on python ide    select option  Run as Administrator  and then run your command   And if you are using the command line to run the codes  do the same open the command prompt with admin rights  Hope it helps

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For future searchers  if none of the above worked  for me  python was trying to open a folder as a file

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Your user don t have the right permissions to read the file  since you used open   without specifying a mode  Since you re using Windows  you should read a little more about File and Folder Permissions  Also  if you want to play with your file permissions  you should right-click it  choose Properties and select Security tab  Or if you want to be a little more hardcore  you can run your script as admin  SO Related Questions   Example1

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If you have this problem in Windows 10  and you know you have premisions on folder  You could write before but it just started to print exception PermissionError recently    You will need to install Windows updates    I hope someone will help this info

[python] Errno 13 Permission denied Python

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