Permission settings for save_config() function

[mfogelson]

When running robot.save_config() you get:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/dorna-1.3-py3.6.egg/dorna/config.yaml'

This goes away if you run sudo or sudo -s before running the script, but maybe you could change the permissions when downloading everything?

[smhty]

This is a problem with Linux and Mac.
I actually don't know about your suggestion: "maybe you could change the permissions when downloading everything". If you can explain it more to me.
One option is to the make sure that the user has a sudo access when they are initializing the Dorna object.

[justinclift]

Ahhh. The path this is showing points out the problem:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/dorna-1.3-py3.6.egg/dorna/config.yaml'

On most versions of *nix, paths like /usr/local/lib/ ... are kept for system files. It sounds like the dorna-1.3 files are being installed there, which is the correct place. Those paths are generally considered "read only", because user software shouldn't have write access to system paths. 😉

The general approach is to have user software save config value to the user's home directory (eg $HOME/.dorna/config.yaml). That keeps the separation between system software + user saved values.

Does that help? 😄

[mfogelson]

Yes,
These suggestions all make sense!