IOError Errno 13 Permission denied

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I have this piece of code to create a  json file to store python data  When i run it in my server i get this error   IOError   Errno 13  Permission denied   juliodantas2015 json  at line with open output file   wb   as fp    Python code   fich input  juliodantas2015 txt  output file  fich input strip   txt     json  import json with open output file   wb   as fp      json dump  yes   fp    In command line i typed chmod 777   py but still not working  How can i fix this

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I had a similar problem  I was attempting to have a file written every time a user visits a website   The problem ended up being twofold   1  the permissions were not set correctly  2  I attempted to use  f   open r newfile txt   w     Wrong   After changing the file to 777  all users can read write  chmod 777  var www path to file and changing the path to an absolute path  my problem was solved  f   open r  var www path to file newfile txt   w     Right

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IOError   Errno 13  Permission denied   juliodantas2015 json    tells you everything you need to know  though you successfully made your python program executable with your chmod  python can t open that juliodantas2015 json  file for writing  You probably don t have the rights to create new files in the folder you re currently in

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I have a really stupid use case for why I got this error   Originally I was printing my data   file txt  Then I changed my mind  and decided to use open  file txt    w   instead   But when I called python  I left   file txt

[python] IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

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