In fabric 2.0.1 connection.get() fails in windows with PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: when trying to copy to a custom local path.

[nagavnaga]

with Connection(host) as cxn: cxn.run(cmd) local_path = r'C:\Program Files\JetBrains\my codes\fabric framework\fabric2.0\SG_info' cxn.get(filename, local_path)

Same is working fine when i leave the local path to default
or
Set the local path by changing the cwd() like below and leave the local path to default.

os.chdir(r'C:\Program Files\JetBrains\my codes\fabric framework\fabric2.0\SG_info')

Full trace is below
"C:/Program Files/JetBrains/my codes/fabric framework/fabric2.0/just1.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Program Files/JetBrains/my codes/fabric framework/fabric2.0/just1.py", line 14, in
cxn.get('sym.txt', local_path)
File "C:\Users\venkan5\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\fabric\connection.py", line 628, in get
return Transfer(self).get(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\venkan5\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\fabric\transfer.py", line 112, in get
sftp.get(remotepath=remote, localpath=local)
File "C:\Users\venkan5\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\paramiko\sftp_client.py", line 769, in get
with open(localpath, 'wb') as fl:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\Program Files\JetBrains\my codes'

[bitprophet]

Suspect this is the same bug as #1749, please follow there and give it another shot once that's fixed and out. Thanks!

[zachbryant]

I've been getting a similar issue with 2.2.1 too. As it turns out, the sftp server and ssh server of the same machine don't always display the same directory structures. I was getting permission denied or file not found because I was stuck in a different root folder. Unfortunately I found that this is not always the case, as one of my servers does have the same sftp and ssh directory structures.

I found that working directly with connection.sftp(), connection.command_cwds, and opening local files as bytes solves my problems.