Autopep8 crashes on PermissionError

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Saving a file with reformatting on save using autopep8 does nothing, except when there is a syntax error in the file, in which case Spyder “encounters an internal error”.

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\encoding.py", line 277, in write
    textfile.write(text)
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\contextlib.py", line 120, in __exit__
    next(self.gen)
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\site-packages\atomicwrites\__init__.py", line 169, in _open
    self.commit(f)
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\site-packages\atomicwrites\__init__.py", line 202, in commit
    replace_atomic(f.name, self._path)
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\site-packages\atomicwrites\__init__.py", line 99, in replace_atomic
    return _replace_atomic(src, dst)
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\site-packages\atomicwrites\__init__.py", line 79, in _replace_atomic
    _handle_errors(windll.kernel32.MoveFileExW(
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\site-packages\atomicwrites\__init__.py", line 76, in _handle_errors
    raise WinError()
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\editor\widgets\editor.py", line 1878, in _save_file
    self._write_to_file(finfo, finfo.filename)
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\editor\widgets\editor.py", line 1808, in _write_to_file
    fileinfo.encoding = encoding.write(txt, filename, fileinfo.encoding)
  File "C:\Users\bobmc\anaconda3\envs\phys516\lib\site-packages\spyder\utils\encoding.py", line 282, in write
    with open(absolute_filename, mode) as textfile:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\bobmc\\OneDrive - PennO365\\UPenn\\2021-01 Spring\\PHYS 516 - Electromagnetic Phenomena\\Final\\Final.py'

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.0.1
• Python version: 3.8.8
• Qt version: 5.12.9
• PyQt5 version: 5.12.3
• Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0          :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0               :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0           :  1.6.0 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0          :  1.7.2 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111   :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2          :  3.0.2 (OK)
IPython >=7.6.0               :  7.19.0 (OK)
jedi =0.17.2                  :  0.17.2 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0            :  3.2.0 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0              :  23.0.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0               :  6.0.7 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0              :  1.1.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0              :  2.7.2 (OK)
parso =0.7.0                  :  0.7.0 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0               :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4             :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                  :  5.8.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                :  2.8.1 (OK)
pylint >=1.0                  :  2.7.2 (OK)
pyls >=0.36.2;<1.0.0          :  0.36.2 (OK)
pyls_black >=0.4.6            :  0.4.6 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.3.2           :  0.3.2 (OK)
qdarkstyle =3.0.2             :  3.0.2 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.1.10            :  0.2.0 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.0.2             :  1.0.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.0.3             :  5.1.0 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                  :  1.9.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.8.3                 :  0.9.7 (OK)
setuptools >=39.0.0           :  49.6.0.post20210108 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                :  3.5.3 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.0.1;<2.1.0 :  2.0.2 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0          :  4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1           :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3;<2.0.0      :  1.0.2 (OK)
zmq >=17                      :  22.0.3 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                 :  None (NOK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0            :  3.3.3 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                   :  1.19.5 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                :  1.2.0 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                :  1.6.0 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                 :  1.7.1 (OK)

[LimeHunter7]

This fixed it, thanks.

[spyder-bot]

Thanks for reporting. To fix this, please open the Anaconda Prompt and run there the following commands:

conda update anaconda
conda install jupyter_client=5.3.4