Azure Function - Exception: OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system:

Question

I'm trying to copy the value from the Excel file but it returns this error message:

Exception while executing function: Functions.extract Result: Failure
Exception: OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: './data_download/xxxxx.xlsx'
Stack:   File "/azure-functions-host/workers/python/3.8/LINUX/X64/azure_functions_worker/dispatcher.py", line 343, in handle_invocation_request
    call_result = await self._loop.run_in_executor(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/azure-functions-host/workers/python/3.8/LINUX/X64/azure_functions_worker/dispatcher.py", line 480, in __run_sync_func
    return func(**params)
  File "/home/site/wwwroot/extract/_init_.py", line 62, in main
    with open(download_file_path, "wb") as download_file:

My code

with open(download_file_path, "wb") as download_file:

Answer 1

I believe that Azure Function resource uses a linux based operating system. All files are saved in the /tmp folder.

import tempfile
import os
   
local_path = tempfile.gettempdir()
filepath = os.path.join(local_path, filename)

And then you should be able to save any data to the filepath variable