A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access

Thu Oct 22 08:42:56 EDT 2015

"Chris Angelico" <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Gisle Vanem <gvanem at yahoo.no> wrote:
>> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>> 'g:\\Programfiler\\Python27\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32\\win32api.pyd'
>>>> -----
>>>> BTW, this is on Python 2.7.9 on Win-XP SP3.
>> Does that file exist? A .pyd file is a DLL, so if it already exists
> and is in use, it's entirely possible it can't be overwritten (eg to
> upgrade it).

It exists all right and I do have full access to that folder.
I think the Errno 13 (=EACCESS) is due to another module (WConio.pyd) 
that seems gets loaded via my site-customize.py is using this
win32api.pyd. Hence it's is in use and shutil fails in updating it. 
--gv