Permission errors with os.replace

Question

Permission errors when using the os library to replace a file with a temp file.

PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\Users\\User\\Documents\\newewenwekwe_proxies.txt.tmp' -> 'C:\\Users\\User\\Documents\\newewenwekwe_proxies.txt'

Code:

    os.replace(tempfile, filename)

Tried restarting my laptop, closing the file, running pycharm as an admin + running cmd as an admin and running the script. P.S I have administrator perms on my laptop.

Answer 1

Try os.rename() instead

The reason why can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69363867/difference-between-os-replace-and-os-rename#:~:text=rename()%20will%20raise%20an,destination%20not%20just%20the%20directory.