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WindowsError is a built-in Python exception raised when a Windows-specific error occurs or when the error number does not correspond to an errno value.

WindowsError instance can be created by function ctypes.WinError().

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Can't remove a folder with os.remove (WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'c:/temp/New Folder')

I'm working on a test case for which I create some subdirs. However, I don't seem to have the permission to remove them anymore. My UA is an Administrator account (Windows XP). I first tried: folder="c:/temp/" for dir in os.listdir(folder): …
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WindowsError [error 5] Access is denied

I'm using the killableprocess package (built on top of subprocess) for running processes Whenever I run the "killableprocess.Popen(command)" piece of code in my script I get the following error: File "killableprocess.py", line 157, in…
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os.system to invoke an exe which lies in a dir whose name contains whitespace

My code is simply as follows: file = 'C:\\Exe\\First Version\\filename.exe' os.system(file) When I run this program, a Windows error is raised: can't find the file specified. I found out the problem has to with the whitespace in the middle of…
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How to avoid "WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied"

There's the script to re-create folder: # Remove folder (if exists) with all files if os.path.isdir(str(os.path.realpath('..') + "\\my_folder")): shutil.rmtree(os.path.realpath('..') + "\\my_folder", ignore_errors=True) # Create new…
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Why am i getting WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied?

Trying to create program that adds folders into program files-recieving this error: WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied 'C:\\Program Files\\IMP' Here is my code import os, sys, random numb= 1 x=True while x==True: newpath = ((r'C:\Program…
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Disabling Windows error reporting (Dr. Watson) for my process

I have an application that is hosting some unstable third-party code which I can't control in an external process to protect my main application from nasty errors it exhibits. My parent process is monitoring the other process and doing "the right…
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"WindowsError: Access is denied" on calling Process.terminate

I enforce a timeout for a block of code using the multiprocessing module. It appears that with certain sized inputs, the following error is raised: WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied I can replicate this error with the following code. Note…
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"WindowsError: exception: access violation..." - ctypes question

Here is the prototype for a C function that resides in a DLL: extern "C" void__stdcall__declspec(dllexport) ReturnPulse(double*,double*,double*,double*,double*); In another thread, I asked about how to properly create and send the necessary…
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ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND vs ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, what is the difference?

I usually get ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND when I try to open a file that's not there, but now fopen() fails and GetLastError() returns ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND. So what is the difference between ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND and ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND?
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Wix error 1721 related to CustomAction

I have following CostomAction
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How to workaround Python "WindowsError messages are not properly encoded" problem?

It's a trouble when Python raised a WindowsError, the encoding of message of the exception is always os-native-encoded. For example: import os os.remove('does_not_exist.file') Well, here we get an exception: Traceback (most recent call last): …
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Why I got "WindowsError [Error5] Access is denied" when run python file using mrjob

I'm trying to use mrjob in a python file and run it in the command line, but I'm keeping getting the error log saying： C:\Users\Ni\Desktop>python si601lab6_sol.py pg1268.txt no configs found; falling back on auto-configuration no configs found;…
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pytesseract error Windows Error [Error 2]

Hi I am trying the python library pytesseract to extract text from image. Please find the code: from PIL import Image from pytesseract import image_to_string print image_to_string(Image.open(r'D:\new_folder\img.png')) But the following error…
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How to open a random Image from a given file directory?

I am trying to open the image from this directory but am not been able to. It gives me the following error: WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. This is my code: import os,…
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Trying to solve WindowError 126 - module not found

Though this is my first question on the StackOverflow, I consider myself a long time member of the community. Considering myself as a pre-intermediate programmer, I'll try to be as specific as possible. I'm writing a Python package that uses a C dll…
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