[Tutor] Fw: rights

[ALAN GAULD]

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Alan Gauld
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----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Chris King <g.nius.ck at gmail.com>
> To: Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
> Sent: Friday, 5 November, 2010 0:48:51
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] rights
> 
> On 11/1/2010 8:43 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> > 
> > "Chris King" <g.nius.ck at gmail.com> wrote
> > 
> >>> You give the user account executing the script rights to read  the folder.
> >>> 
> >>> HTH,
> >>> 
> >>  It was a folder on my desktop, which I can always read, right, and destroy. 
>I  ran it on that user.
> > 
> > In that case we probably need to  see:
> > 
> > 1) What OS?
> > 
> > 2) What does the code look  like?
> > 
> > 3) How are you running it?
> > 
> > 4) What error  messages do you get?
> > 
> > Also, is it a folder you are trying to  read or a file?
> > They are not the same.
> > 
> > 
> I'm trying  to get the raw binary of a file in linux or windows.
> When I run:
> 
> f =  open('C:/Documents and Settings/family/Desktop/Tuxpaint', 'rb')
> 
> in  Windows, it raises:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File  "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
>     f =  open('C:/Documents and Settings/family/Desktop/Tuxpaint', 'rb')
> IOError:  [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:/Documents and  
>Settings/family/Desktop/Tuxpaint'
> 
> Can you help?
>