Errno 13 Permission denied Python

Question

In python, I am currently experimenting with what I can do with open command. I tried to open a file, and got an error message. Here's my code:

open(r'C:\Users\****\Desktop\File1') 

My error message was:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\****\\Desktop\\File1' 

I looked on the website to try and find some answers and I saw a post where somebody mentioned chmod. 1. I'm not sure what this is and 2. I don't know how to use it, and thats why I've come here.

Answer 1

For future searchers, if none of the above worked, for me, python was trying to open a folder as a file.

Check at the location where you try to open the file, if you have a folder with exactly the same name as the file you try to open (the file extension is part of the file name).