os.access() under windows

[David Tweet]

To answer indirectly, usually the EAFP (easier to ask forgiveness than
permission) approach works better for this kind of thing.

try:
  f = open('e:\\test\\test', 'a')
  f.write('abc')
  f.close()
except IOError:
  print "couldn't write test file, continuing..."

On Dec 1, 2007 1:48 AM, Yann Leboulanger <yann.le_boulanger at u-paris10.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Under Windows XP os.access has a strange behaviour:
>
> I create a folder test under e:
>
> then os.access('e:\\test', os.W_OK) returns True. Everything's ok.
>
> Now I move My Documents to this e:\test folder
>
> Then os.access('e:\\test', os.W_OK) returns False !!
>
> but this works:
> f = open('e:\\test\\test', 'a')
> f.write('abc')
> f.close()
>
> So why os.access returns False ?
>
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-David