How to get a directory file descriptor?

[alex23]

On Nov 26, 3:26 pm, greg <g... at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> os.O_DIRECTORY must be fairly new -- it doesn't exist
> in my 2.5 installation. But os.O_RDONLY seems to work
> just as well for this purpose.

Which OS are you using?

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
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>>> import os
>>> hasattr(os, 'O_DIRECTORY')
True

I'm pretty certain it was present under Windows XP as well.