Getting Error while reading a manual_test.csv file in Jupyter. (Data and warehouse mining, Machine Learning)

Question

I am trying to run a cell in Jupyter notebook and getting permission error number 13. The code is

df_manual_testing = pd.concat([df_fake_manual_testing,df_true_manual_testing], axis = 0)
df_manual_testing.to_csv("manual_testing.csv")

The error which I am getting is:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
PermissionError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-16-f14a4d175882> in <module>
      1 df_manual_testing = pd.concat([df_fake_manual_testing,df_true_manual_testing], axis = 0)
----> 2 df_manual_testing.to_csv("manual_testing.csv")

~\anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\generic.py in to_csv(self, path_or_buf, sep, na_rep, float_format, columns, header, index, index_label, mode, encoding, compression, quoting, quotechar, line_terminator, chunksize, date_format, doublequote, escapechar, decimal)
   3202             decimal=decimal,
   3203         )
-> 3204         formatter.save()
   3205 
   3206         if path_or_buf is None:

~\anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\formats\csvs.py in save(self)
    182             close = False
    183         else:
--> 184             f, handles = get_handle(
    185                 self.path_or_buf,
    186                 self.mode,

~\anaconda\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\common.py in get_handle(path_or_buf, mode, encoding, compression, memory_map, is_text)
    426         if encoding:
    427             # Encoding
--> 428             f = open(path_or_buf, mode, encoding=encoding, newline="")
    429         elif is_text:
    430             # No explicit encoding

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'manual_testing.csv'

I cannot understand how to change the permission of my file. I think so I will need to change it from root to user, but I am not sure exactly how to do this.

Answer 1

If you are not interested in writing the csv file into the current working directory, you could simply specify the full path of a folder in which you are sure you have the permissions to write.

For example:

df_manual_testing.to_csv("C:/Users/../manual_testing.csv")

However, if you want to write in a particular folder, you can check from the terminal if you have the permissions to write here, using the command ls -lh. Eventually, you could change the permissions using the account of the owner of the folder, with the command chmod 777 myfolder.

If you need more information about file permissions, you could look at this reference.