I am using python 3.5.3, and now I want to install pandas and numpy but not able to, following is the error in cmd, anyone can help me? Answer As others have pointed out you need to run the command with admin privileges. How to do this varies by windows version, but on Windows 8 and 10 you can just

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘C:\Program Files\Python35\Lib\site-packages\six.py’

I am using python 3.5.3, and now I want to install pandas and numpy but not able to, following is the error in cmd, anyone can help me?

 C:Program FilesPython35Scripts>py -3.5 -m pip install pandas 

Collecting pandas
Using cached pandas-0.20.1-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
Collecting python-dateutil>=2 (from pandas)
Using cached python_dateutil-2.6.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting numpy>=1.7.0 (from pandas)
Using cached numpy-1.12.1-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl
Collecting pytz>=2011k (from pandas)
Using cached pytz-2017.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting six>=1.5 (from python-dateutil>=2->pandas)
Using cached six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: six, python-dateutil, numpy, pytz, pandas
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:Program FilesPython35libsite-packagespipbasecommand.py", line 215, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "C:Program FilesPython35libsite-packagespipcommandsinstall.py", line 342, in run
prefix=options.prefix_path,
File "C:Program FilesPython35libsite-packagespipreqreq_set.py", line 784, in install
**kwargs
File "C:Program FilesPython35libsite-packagespipreqreq_install.py", line 851, in install
self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
File "C:Program FilesPython35libsite-packagespipreqreq_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
isolated=self.isolated,
File "C:Program FilesPython35libsite-packagespipwheel.py", line 345, in move_wheel_files
clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
File "C:Program FilesPython35libsite-packagespipwheel.py", line 323, in clobber
shutil.copyfile(srcfile, destfile)
File "C:Program FilesPython35libshutil.py", line 121, in copyfile
with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\Program Files\Python35\Lib\site-packages\six.py'

Answer

As others have pointed out you need to run the command with admin privileges.

How to do this varies by windows version, but on Windows 8 and 10 you can just press Windows+X (or just right-clicking the Start button). On the menu, choose “Command Prompt (Admin).”

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