Windows error 5: Access is denied when trying delete a directory in windows

Question

i am trying to delete a directory but when i run the code it gives windows error 5: access is denied. here is my code: in the Release folder, there is a folder called

Answer 1

This was due to the file permissions issue.

You need to have the permissions to perform that task on that file.

To get the permissions associated with a file, useos.stat(fileName)

You can explicitly check the write permission for that file using os.access(fileName, os.W_OK)

Then, to change the permission, os.chmod(fileName,permissionNumeric).

Ex: os.chmod(fileName, '0777')

To change the permission for the current file that is being executed, use os.chmod(__file__, '0777')