How to avoid “WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied”

Question

There\'s the script to re-create folder:

# Remove folder (if exists) with all files
if os.path.isdir(str(os.path.realpath(\'..\') + \"\\\\my_folder\")):
             


        

Answer 1

Permissions might be the problem, but I had the same problem '[Error 5] Access is denied' on a os.rename() and a simple retry-loop was able to rename the file after a few retries.

for retry in range(100):
    try:
        os.rename(src_name,dest_name)
        break
    except:
        print "rename failed, retrying..."