Question

I have two folders: In, Out – it is not system folder on disk D: – Windows 7. Out contain “myfile.txt” I run the following command in python:

>>> shutil.copyfile( r"d:\Out\myfile.txt", r"D:\In" )

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#39>", line 1, in <module>
    shutil.copyfile( r"d:\Out\myfile.txt", r"D:\In" )
  File "C:\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 82, in copyfile
    with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'D:\\In'

What’s the problem?

Answer 1

Read the docs:

shutil.copyfile(src, dst)

Copy the contents (no metadata) of the file named src to a file
named dst. dst must be the complete target file name; look at copy()
for a copy that accepts a target directory path.