Handle Permission Denied Error in windows Python

Question

i want to copy and paste a file into a directory so i use shutil library in python

file_path = 'C:/Users/user/Downloads/Telegram Desktop/speech.py'
target_path = 'C:/Users/user/Desktop/'
shutil.copyfile(file_path,target_path)

then i got that error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\shutil.py", line 264, in copyfile
    with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc, open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:/Users/user/Desktop'

how can i fix this?

try running cmd as admin and then run this code, otherwise You may handle it using try/except, but then still You won't be able to do anything to the file, it just won't throw an error and stop Your code (also when using try/except either except the specific error or print out the exception to know what happened, DO NOT USE bare except: (suggestion)) — Matiiss
– Matiiss, Commented Jul 17, 2021 at 17:52

sommervold · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-17 15:55:34Z

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You need to provide the full path to the copy destination, not just to the destination directory

target_path = 'C:/Users/user/Desktop/speech.py'

answered Jul 17, 2021 at 15:55

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