Please don't post screen shots of text, copy and paste the text as text.

Screen shots are hostile to the blind and visually impaired as screen-readers don't work with them. They make it impossible for us to copy your code to run it ourselves, and text in screen shots cannot be searched for.


As this is a permission error, the chances are very strong that it is not a bug but an actual OS permission error. You need to eliminate site-specific factors:

Are you running the two different versions of Python using the same user account with the same access controls? If the two versions of Python run with different permissions, that may explain why you get a permission error.

What are the permssions on the file you are trying to access? Could there be any additional OS-level or network drive ACLs?

Being a networked drive, is it possible that it is a transient network glitch being wrongly reported by Windows as a permission error? In other words, do you get the same error every time, or was it just a one-off?