Why would shutil.copy() raise a permission exception when cp doesn't?

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shutil.copy() is raising a permissions error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "copy-test.py", line 3, in <module>
    shutil.copy('src/images/ajax-loader-000000-e3e3e3.gif', 'bin/styles/blacktie/images')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 118, in copy
    copymode(src, dst)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 91, in copymode
    os.chmod(dst, mode)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: 'bin/styles/blacktie/images/ajax-loader-000000-e3e3e3.gif'

copy-test.py:

import shutil

shutil.copy('src/images/ajax-loader-000000-e3e3e3.gif', 'bin/styles/blacktie/images')

I am running copy-test.py from the command line:

python copy-test.py

But running cp from the command line on the same file to the same destination doesn't cause an error. Why?

copy permissions python
5 Answers

This form worked for me:

shutil.copy('/src_path/filename','/dest_path/filename')
user_31259810

I had this exact same issue... using shutil.copyfile() was a good workaround.... however, I completely FIXED the issue by simply rebooting Windows 10 OS.

user_12248270

Arguments must be:

shutil.copy('src/images/ajax-loader-000000-e3e3e3.gif', 'bin/styles/blacktie/images.ajax-loader-000000-e3e3e3.gif')
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