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The reason for receiving a Python IOError with the message "[Errno 13] Permission denied" when attempting to write to a file is that the current user or process does not have the necessary permissions to write to the specified file. This could be due to various reasons such as the file being owned by a different user or process, the file being read-only, or the file system permissions not allowing the current user or process to write to the file.