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Python 3 permission error when playing a sound file (mp3, playsound module)

The program was working fine a few days ago, and it just stopped today. Not a single letter has been changed. One of my troubleshooting steps was to remove the file 'output1.mp3' and check if it will work that way, but it didn't. Another thing is that when it wasn't printing out the error, it would continue to play just this one sound file, whether or not it said the correct thing. Here's the latest error I got:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main3.py", line 123, in <module>
start()
File "main3.py", line 117, in start
tts(say)
File "main3.py", line 24, in tts
play('output1.mp3')
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\playsound.py", line 35, in _playsoundWin
winCommand('open "' + sound + '" alias', alias)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\playsound.py", line 31, in winCommand
raise PlaysoundException(exceptionMessage)
playsound.PlaysoundException:
Error 275 for command:
open "output1.mp3" alias playsound_0.8842337577803419
Cannot find the specified file. Make sure the path and filename are correct.
Here's the code that I use:
import boto3 # used to 'pythonize' Amazon Polly TTS
import speech # speech recognition
from playsound import playsound as play # for playing sound files
import sys # basically only for exiting
# import locator # for determining the location of the user based on IP address
import locator2 # for confirming auto-detected location
# import locator3 # for definitely confirming auto-detection location
import question # module for answering any question
from datetime import datetime # for displaying the date and time
# from time import sleep # sleep (wai()t for) function
from os import popen as read # for reading command outputs "read('COMMAND').read()"
def tts(text):
polly = boto3.client("polly")
spoken_text = polly.synthesize_speech(Text=str(text),
OutputFormat='mp3',
VoiceId='Brian')
with open('output11.mp3', 'wb') as f:
f.write(spoken_text['AudioStream'].read())
f.close()
play('output11.mp3')
def ask(query):
question.question(query)
response = question.answer
print(response)
tts(response)
ai()
def time():
now = datetime.now()
print("Current date and time: ")
print(now.strftime("%H:%M") + "\n")
tts("It is " + now.strftime("%H:%M"))
ai()
def weather():
response = "Based on your IP address, I've detected that you're located in %s. Is that correct?" % locator2.city
print(response)
tts(response)
speech.speech()
if 'yes' in speech.x:
z = read('weather "%s"' % locator2.city).read()
print(z)
tts(z)
ai()
else:
response = 'Please say the name of the city you would like the weather information for. \n'
print(response)
tts(response)
speech.speech()
city = speech.x
wdr = read('weather "%s"' % city).read()
print(wdr)
tts(wdr)
ai()
def thank():
response = "You're very welcome! \n"
print(response)
tts(response)
ai()
def ext():
response = "Goodbye!"
print(response)
tts(response)
sys.exit()
def error():
response = "Invalid request detected, please try again...\n"
print(response)
tts(response)
ai()
def ai():
print('Started listening - Speak!')
speech.speech()
spoken = speech.x
# TODO new commands should be written above this, and their trigger words below :)
question_words = ['?', 'what', 'where', 'when', 'who', 'how', 'why']
if 'time' in spoken:
time()
elif 'weather' in spoken:
weather()
elif any(word in spoken for word in question_words):
ask(spoken)
elif 'thank' in spoken:
thank()
elif 'exit' or 'quit' or 'deactivate' in spoken:
ext()
else:
error()
def start():
say = "Hello! My name is Dave, and I'm your personal assistant. How may I help you today? \n"
print(say)
tts(say)
ai()
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
start()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
ext()
The speech synthesizer is Amazon Polly. By the way, I was using PyCharm as an IDE and working on Windows 10. When I switch to my Linux machine the speech recognition part breaks.
UPDATE: I was tweaking the code a bit and managed to fix the pyaudio error, but I got another one in the process, this time it was about permissions. Here's the error log:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 123, in <module>
start()
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 118, in start
ai()
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 96, in ai
time()
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 39, in time
tts("It is " + now.strftime("%H:%M"))
File "C:/Users/Despot/Desktop/DAv3/main3.py", line 21, in tts
with open('output11.mp3', 'wb') as f:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'output11.mp3'
UPDATE 2: I have been tikering about and I've found that the issue is only present on my Windows 10 machine, the program works fine on Linux.

Try using the absolute path (complete path) of the audio file instead of the relative path.
For example: "C:/Users/Adam/Desktop/dolphin.wav" instead of just "dolphin.wav"
This worked for me.

playsound libs has a windows directories in them.
If this fail only on Linux you should install playsound lib on the linux machine and then copy only the main3.py to it.

Answer for UPDATE2:
Copy output11.mp3 to another location and change the path to the new location:
with open('CHANGE-THIS-PATH', 'wb') as f:
Also make sure python run as administrator.

I solved this problem by moving the .py and .wav files to a folder less deep inside the file system.

I just renamed the audio file from sample.wav to sample
and then run it as playsound('sample.wav')
Luckily It ran.
Then I came to know that previously it was stored as sample.wav.wav.
So let's keep your audio file name as output.wav and try running your audio file as:
playsound('output.wav.wav') # or else rename it to output and run as
playsound('output.wav') # likewise for other audio formats too

Trying to make a dynamic host file for ansible in python

This is my first post here, so if there are any questions or if something is unlcear, don't hesitate to ask.
I am trying to use a dynamic host file so I can build multiple vagrant machines without having to manage the host file first. This is what I found online:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Adapted from Mark Mandel's implementation
# https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/plugins/inventory/vagrant.py
import argparse
import json
import paramiko
import subprocess
import sys
def parse_args():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Vagrant inventory script")
group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required=True)
group.add_argument('--list', action='store_true')
group.add_argument('--host')
return parser.parse_args()
def list_running_hosts():
cmd = "vagrant status --machine-readable"
status = subprocess.check_output(cmd.split()).rstrip()
hosts = []
for line in status.split('\n'):
(_, host, key, value) = line.split(',')
if key == 'state' and value == 'running':
hosts.append(host)
return hosts
def get_host_details(host):
cmd = "vagrant ssh-config {}".format(host)
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
config = paramiko.SSHConfig()
config.parse(p.stdout)
c = config.lookup(host)
return {'ansible_ssh_host': c['hostname'],
'ansible_ssh_port': c['port'],
'ansible_ssh_user': c['user'],
'ansible_ssh_private_key_file': c['identityfile'][0]}
def main():
args = parse_args()
if args.list:
hosts = list_running_hosts()
json.dump({'vagrant': hosts}, sys.stdout)
else:
details = get_host_details(args.host)
json.dump(details, sys.stdout)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
However, when I run this I get the following error:
ERROR! The file inventory/vagrant.py is marked as executable, but failed to execute correctly. If this is not supposed to be an executable script, correct this with `chmod -x inventory/vagrant.py`.
ERROR! Inventory script (inventory/vagrant.py) had an execution error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/sebas/Desktop/playbooks/inventory/vagrant.py", line 52, in <module>
main()
File "/home/sebas/Desktop/playbooks/inventory/vagrant.py", line 45, in main
hosts = list_running_hosts()
File "/home/sebas/Desktop/playbooks/inventory/vagrant.py", line 24, in list_running_hosts
(_, host, key, value) = line.split(',')
ValueError: too many values to unpack
ERROR! inventory/vagrant.py:4: Expected key=value host variable assignment, got: argparse
does anybody know what I did wrong? Thank you guys in advance!

I guess the problem is that vagrant status command will work only inside a directory with a Vagrantfile, or if the ID of a target machine is specified.
To get the state of all active Vagrant environments on the system, vagrant global-status should be used instead. But global-status has a drawback: it uses a cache and does not actively verify the state of machines.
So to reliably determine the state, first we need to get the IDs of all VMs with vagrant global-status and then check these IDs with vagrant status ID.

Trying to generate a list of product/vendor ids using PyUSB

I am trying to generate a list of product/vendor IDs with Pyusb and I am having trouble. I found a suggestion online from orangecoat.
import sys
import usb.core
import usb.util
dev = usb.core.find(find_all=True)
if dev is None:
raise ValueError('Device not found')
cfg = dev.get_active_configuration()
Python gives the following error though:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Python27/usbfinddevices.py", line 10, in <module>
cfg = dev.get_active_configuration()
AttributeError: 'generator' object has no attribute 'get_active_configuration'
Could someone help me understand why I am getting this error?
Thank you

You're almost there, but you need to iterate through your dev object which is a generator.
dev = usb.core.find(find_all=True)
for d in dev:
print usb.util.get_string(d,128,d.iManufacturer)
print usb.util.get_string(d,128,d.iProduct)
print (d.idProduct,d.idVendor)

Save this script
test.py
import usb.core
import usb.util
dev = usb.core.find(find_all=True)
# get next item from the generator
d = dev.next()
print d.get_active_configuration()
then, run this
sudo python test.py
On Windows with Python 3 you need to change line d = dev.next() to d = next(dev) (as pointed out in the comments by #gabin)

File Too Large to import?

I just wrote this code to fetch the wireshark mac oui database, and I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "init.py", line 38, in <module>
main()
File "init.py", line 27, in main
import maclist
File "/home/synthetica/WiJam/maclist.py", line 23753
'FC:F6:4
however, this is NOT the contents of the file at that line. Is this a limit of the python intepreter, something I'm overlooking, or something else?
init.py:
def main():
#init
#Load config.
import localconfig
print localconfig.name
#update mac adress db, if at all possible:
try:
import maclist
except:
import urllib2
print "Fetching MAC adress db."
try:
maclist = urllib2.urlopen(localconfig.url)
else:
fl = open("maclist.py","w")
fl.write("#maclist.py generated by "+localconfig.name+"\n")
print "Generating maclist.py"
for line in maclist:
if "#" in line: line=line[:line.index("#")]
line = line.split()
if line and "-" not in line[0]:
line=[repr(part) for part in line]
line = "=".join(line)
fl.write("=".join(line.split())+"\n")
import maclist
#start browser
#start web interface
#handle web interface commands
#display web interface
if __name__=="__main__":
main()
localconfig.py
version = "0.3"
name = "Synth's WiJam (version "+version+")"
#maclist related:
url = "https://code.wireshark.org/review/gitweb?p=wireshark.git;a=blob_plain;f=manuf;hb=HEAD"
Any leads?
#bren
maclist.py: Not the full thing, heavens no. It's 20k+ lines.
'FC:E1:92'='SichuanJ'
'FC:E1:D9'='StableIm'
'FC:E2:3F'='ClayPaky'
'FC:E5:57'='Nokia'
'FC:E8:92'='Hangzhou'
'FC:ED:B9'='Arrayent'
'FC:F1:CD'='Optex-Fa'
'FC:F5:28'='ZyxelCom'
'FC:F6:47'='Fiberhom'
'FC:F8:AE'='IntelCor'
'FC:F8:B7'='TronteqE'
'FC:FA:F7'='Shanghai'
'FC:FB:FB'='Cisco'

Rewrite maclist.py to be proper python syntax, for example:
hosts={}
hosts['FC:FA:F7']='Shanghai'
hosts['FC:FB:FB']='Cisco'
and so on.

crontab with sudo python script

Alright, I've found something. Not sure how to tackle it. I've seen that this is a common error that comes up in google. The error seems to have something to do with the environment variables or something. Not sure how to handle this:
This is the code and it's the part where subprocess is called that leads to the error:
#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
import re
import sys
import time
import datetime
import gspread
# ===========================================================================
# Google Account Details
# ===========================================================================
# Account details for google docs
email = 'my_email#gmail.com'
password = 'my_password'
spreadsheet = 'my_spreadsheet'
# ===========================================================================
# Example Code
# ===========================================================================
# Login with your Google account
try:
gc = gspread.login(email, password)
except:
print "Unable to log in. Check your email address/password"
sys.exit()
# Open a worksheet from your spreadsheet using the filename
try:
worksheet = gc.open(spreadsheet).sheet1
# Alternatively, open a spreadsheet using the spreadsheet's key
# worksheet = gc.open_by_key('0BmgG6nO_6dprdS1MN3d3MkdPa142WFRrdnRRUWl1UFE')
except:
print "Unable to open the spreadsheet. Check your filename: %s" % spreadsheet
sys.exit()
# Continuously append data
while(True):
# Run the DHT program to get the humidity and temperature readings!
output = subprocess.check_output(["./Adafruit_DHT", "2302", "17"]);
print output
matches = re.search("Temp =\s+([0-9.]+)", output)
if (not matches):
time.sleep(3)
continue
temp1 = float(matches.group(1))
temp = temp1*9/5+32 # added the extra step to converto to fahrenheit
# search for humidity printout
matches = re.search("Hum =\s+([0-9.]+)", output)
if (not matches):
time.sleep(3)
continue
humidity = float(matches.group(1))
print "Temperature: %.1f F" % temp
print "Humidity: %.1f %%" % humidity
# Append the data in the spreadsheet, including a timestamp
try:
values = [datetime.datetime.now(), temp, humidity]
worksheet.append_row(values)
except:
print "Unable to append data. Check your connection?"
sys.exit()
# Wait 30 seconds before continuing or just exit
print "Wrote a row to %s" % spreadsheet
# time.sleep(60)
sys.exit()
that's basically it. It works fine using 'sudo python script.py' as long as the Adafruit_DHT program is in the same directory.
Here's the error I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/Adafruit/dht/Ada_temp.py", line 44, in <module>
output = subprocess.check_output(["./home/pi/Adafruit/dht/Adafruit_DHT", "2302", "17"]);
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 537, in check_output
process = Popen(stdout=PIPE, *popenargs, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1259, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
I've tried adding the full path of the c program (Adafruit_DHT), to no avail...

Locate the problem.
Does the script run at all?
Do something trivial in the first line of the script to see that it actually gets executed from cron (e.g.: write to a file in /tmp).
Once you managed to run it, look for other problems. Cron can be set up to send the a mail with the output of the script. One obvious thing I see is: ./Adafruit_DHT, relative path is used, that's a bad sign, the cron script is probably not executed in the directory you think it does. Fix it (= use absolute path).

Try:
output = subprocess.check_output(["PATH_TO_Adafruit_DHT/Adafruit_DHT", "2302", "17"]);
Oh and change your cron line to:
/usr/bin/python /home/pi/myscript.py