shutil.move(scr, dst) gets me IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied and 3 more errors

Question

``` Documents = ['*pdf', '*docx', '*txt'] for i in range(len(Documents)): if glob.glob(Documents[i]): print(Documents[i], True) shutil.move(glob.glob(Documents[i])[0], '/home') else: print(Documents[i], False) ``` Well, everything goes great until: ``` shutil.move(glob.glob(Documents[i])[0], '/home') ``` Which is basically: ``` shutil.move(scr, dst) ``` And produces the error: ``` *pdf False *docx True Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.2/shutil.py", line 326, in move os.rename(src, real_dst) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "teste.py", line 19, in <module> shutil.move(glob.glob(Documents[i])[0], '/home') File "/usr/lib/python3.2/shutil.py", line 334, in move copy2(src, real_dst) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/shutil.py", line 146, in copy2 copyfile(src, dst) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/shutil.py", line 99, in copyfile with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: IOError: [E…

Accepted Answer

You're attempting to write files to the `/home` directory. You should not be doing that.

Linux is a multiuser operating system. `/home` is where all of your users home directories live. Each user should have their own directory under `/home`. For example yours could be `/home/Joao`.

Change the last parameter from this line

```
shutil.move(glob.glob(Documents[i])[0], '/home')
```

to

```
shutil.move(glob.glob(Documents[i])[0], '/home/your_username')
```

Here's a general improvement suggestion:

```
# Variable names are lower case
documents = ["*.pdf", "*.docx", "*.txt"] 
# You iterate over a for loop like this. Python's for is like for-each. You get the actual item.
for doc in documents: 
    if glob.glob(doc):
        shutil.move(glob.glob(doc)[0], '/home/your_username/Documents')
```

shutil.move(scr, dst) gets me IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied and 3 more errors

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