Hi,

I apologise if sending this mail to you is the wrong way to treat my problem but:

I have experienced a problem on my Windows system using "os.access()":

>>> os.access("c:\Program Files\\", os.W_OK)
True

From my point of view, using this as a "Testuser" with normal user permissions (on a VM):
>>> os.getlogin()
'Testuser'

should return FALSE. Or do I miss anything here?

I have tried that on an Ubuntu 20.04 WSL under my normal account which should be seen as normal  user. That yields the expected result:

Python 3.8.2 (default, Jul 16 2020, 14:00:26)
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.access("c:\Program Files", os.W_OK)
False

I reckon this is due to the difference of handling permissions under Linux and WIndows and the documentation refers to Unix' access() man page but nevertheless I think this should either be fixed or at least be documented as not be appropriate for Windows.

I found nothing about this problem on the web no matter what I searched for therefore I report it here.

And by the way:

os.getlogin() produces funny errror messsages on the WSL:
>>> os.getlogin()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>> os.getuid()
1000

Regards
Volker