How to fix the permission denied error? (happens in any IDE)

Question

I am trying to run a python file. But i got this error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "modeltraining.py", line 29, in <module>
    sr,audio = read(source + path)
  File "C:\Users\RAAM COMPUTERS\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\scipy\io\wavfile.py", line 233, in read
    fid = open(filename, 'rb')
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'development_set/'

Answer 1

Run Spyder as administrator Right click --> run as administrator

Or may be you can change the permissions of the directory you want to save to so that all users have read and write permissions.

Answer 2

After some time relaunching Anaconda and Spyder, I got an alert from Avast antivirus about protecting me from a malicious file, the one I was trying to create.

After allowing it, the "[Errno 13] Permission denied" error disappeared.

In my case, it seem the cause of the problem was Avast locking the directory.

numpy.save(array, path) worked fine, but PIL.Image().save(path) was blocked.