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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 23:09:22 +1100
Subject: Re: A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Gisle Vanem <gvanem@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).

ChrisA