File Permissions

[Sybren Stuvel]

VJ enlightened us with:
> Basically i want to write into a file .If the permissions are not
> there then print a error message.  How do i achive this ???

f = file('somefile', 'w')

then catch the exception that's thrown when it can't be done.

Sybren
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