os.access giving incorrect results on Windows

Andrew Berg bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com
Thu May 19 15:56:17 EDT 2011


On 2011.05.19 02:43 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> This is basically issue2528 [1].
> The problem is that, although Windows (and Python)
> expose a version of os.access to match the Posix function,
> the meaning is so far removed on Windows as to be useless.
Does this affect just os.W_OK and directories or all of os.access()?

In any case, this information should really be reflected in the docs.



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