Permission Denied While Accessing Files in Anaconda Prompt - windows

Question

I have a Python script that accesses some files, form example one line of code appends some text to a .txt file.
It runs correctly in a normal cmd.exe, with or without Admnistrator access. But while using a Anaconda Prompt or a cmd.exe opened from Anaconda Navigator it gives a PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: in the open('path/to/file', 'a+') line.
I'm looking for a solution for why Anaconda's python cannot access files. Another line of code using the function handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler() from the logging module also throws the same error.
Some info that might be useful:
I have two Anaconda environments, one with python 2.7 and another one with python 3.6.6, both throw the error;
I have installed Anaconda 3 without adding anaconda to my PATH, because it was recommended in the installer;
My PATH's python, the version that works in the non-anaconda cmd.exe, is also 3.6.6;
I use Windows 10.
Edit:
Okay, so there seems to be some confusion about what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm making a text file with every .jpg file in a folder recursively, followed by the split of the file name. The text file should have: "path/to/XY_file_XY.jpg file" for every file found. Those splits represent the labels of the images for a neural network I'm training.
Here is my code for creating this text file:
import glob
class DBSetter(object):
def __init__(self, rootPath = 'C:\\Users\\Victor.Lundgren\\Google Drive\\Mestrado\\VC\\Projeto\\data\\mnt'):
self.path = rootPath
return
def setDB(self, extension = '.jpg', splitFileName = True, splitDilimiter = '_', splitPosition = 1):
query = self.path+'\\**\\*'+extension
print(query)
fileList = glob.glob(query, recursive = True)
sampleFileText = ''
for file in fileList:
word = file.split('\\')[-1]
if splitFileName:
word = word.split(splitDilimiter)[splitPosition]
sampleFileText += file+' '+word+'\n'
print('Sample File Text created.')
sampleFile = open(self.path+'\\sample.txt', 'a+')
sampleFile.write(sampleFileText)
sampleFile.close()
return
For instance, let's create a DBSetter object in a main.py and test ir with the default Python (3.6.6) in a simple cmd.exe and with Anaconda's Python (3.6.6) in an Anaconda Prompt:
from utils import database_setter
setter = database_setter.DBSetter('C:\\Users\\Victor.Lundgren\\Pictures\\Trabalho\\ASA') #choosing this folder for this example because it has few files in it.
setter.setDB(extension = '.png', splitFileName = False)
Here we have our cmd history in a simple cmd.exe calling main.py:
> Microsoft Windows [versão 10.0.16299.492] (c) 2017 Microsoft
> Corporation. Todos os direitos reservados. Clink v0.4.9 [git:2fd2c2]
> Copyright (c) 2012-2016 Martin Ridgers http://mridgers.github.io/clink
>
>
> C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren>cd C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Google Drive\Mestrado\VC\Projeto
>
> C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Google Drive\Mestrado\VC\Projeto>Python
> __main__.py C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Pictures\Trabalho\ASA\**\*.png Sample File Text created.
>
> C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Google Drive\Mestrado\VC\Projeto>
Now executing Anaconda Promp from the windows menu and runnning the same thing with my Python 3.6.6 env:
> Clink v0.4.9 [git:2fd2c2] Copyright (c) 2012-2016 Martin Ridgers
> http://mridgers.github.io/clink
>
>
> (base) C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren>cd C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Google Drive\Mestrado\VC\Projeto
>
> (base) C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Google Drive\Mestrado\VC\Projeto>activate Py3
>
> (Py3) C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Google Drive\Mestrado\VC\Projeto>Python
> __main__.py C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Pictures\Trabalho\ASA\**\*.png Sample File Text created. Traceback (most recent call last): File
> "__main__.py", line 6, in <module>
> setter.setDB(extension = '.png', splitFileName = False) File "C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Google Drive\Mestrado\VC\Projeto\utils\database_setter.py", line 19, in setDB
> sampleFile = open(self.path+'\\sample.txt', 'a+') PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> 'C:\\Users\\Victor.Lundgren\\Pictures\\Trabalho\\ASA\\sample.txt'
>
> (Py3) C:\Users\Victor.Lundgren\Google Drive\Mestrado\VC\Projeto>

Answer 1

After multiple attempts on reinstalling Anaconda I discovered the issue. My antivirus (Bitdefender) was exclusively blocking the Python version installed by Anaconda and for some reason not showing any notifications of it being blocked, removing the block made it run correctly.