Can't Write File

[Victor Subervi]

Hi;
I've determined the problem in a script is I can't open a file to write it:
script = open(getpic, "w")  # where getpic is already defined
Here are the permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4649 Nov 10 12:31 start.py
What am I doing wrong?
TIA,
Victor
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