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Pretty sure it has something to do with the run permissions of it but I don't know how to fix it. I'm very new to Python so please dumb down your reply as much as possible. Thank you in advance.

+ I'm using PyCharm and ran it as administrator, still doesn't work


>>> browser = webdriver.Chrome('C:\SeleniumDrivers')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Mario\PycharmProjects\py1\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 76, in start
    stdin=PIPE)
  File "C:\Users\Mario\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 775, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Users\Mario\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 1178, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Mario\PycharmProjects\py1\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "C:\Users\Mario\PycharmProjects\py1\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 88, in start
    os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'SeleniumDrivers' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
Fixed it nvm.

I didnt have "\chromedriver.exe" at the end of my thing. Also ran pycharm as admin