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[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Martin v. Löwis [mailto:loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de] 
> 
> "Bjorn Pettersen" <BPettersen at narex.com> writes:
> 
> > Thanks. Do you think there would be any interest in adding 
> > these kinds of utility functions to e.g. the os.path module?
> 
> I doubt that. Your implementation is valid only on Windows, 
> on Unix, you need to determine whether you are interested in 
> user, group, or other bits, and you also have not only read 
> and write, but also execute. The current API is as portable 
> and convenient is it can get.
[snip]

Ok. Thanks for considering it.

> > win32all isn't standard on Windows <wink>?
> 
> No; that's a huge code base, and nobody has proposed to 
> incorporate it into Python proper.

Notice the <wink>? Seriously though, I can't imagine any Python/Windows shop that don't have win32all installed by default (hats off to Mark Hammond for excellent work). I know I made it a requirement when I had sysadmin install Python on all of our machines <grin>.

-- bjorn