[issue6534] os.makedirs returns EACCES for "C:\"

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc report at bugs.python.org
Tue Jul 21 23:37:43 CEST 2009


Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

EACCESS is the error code returned by the underlying mkdir system call.
os.mkdir won't change this, as long as an OSError is raised.

You should use another way to check that the directory exists, like 
os.path.isdir("c:\\")

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nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc
resolution:  -> invalid
status: open -> closed

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