permission denied issue when trying to access files in a folder with xlrd or shutil
问题 Edit: I deleted this but I'm going to undelete because I think it could be useful. And post what was actually happening which I didn't realize at the time. Original Question: I'm trying to open a set of excel files where one is currently open by another user. All of the other files work, but this one I get 'permission denied' errors. Windows gives you the option to "read only" open the file, but I can't seem to find an equivalent in python (xlrd), so I thought I would copy the file to a temp