[Tutor] [HELP]how to test properties of a file

[Nick Lunt]

Shidai Liu wrote:

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>I found out in the following situation, it fails to work.
>Say, 'somefile.csv' is opened by EXCEL,
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>>>>os.access('somefile.csv', os.W_OK)
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>>>>file('somefile.csv', 'w')
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>IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'somefile.csv'
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>By the way, using os.stat & stat as suggested by Alan doesn't work either.
>Any idea how solve it?
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I havent got access to a windows box unfortunately at the moment. And I 
have no idea about permissions on windows boxes anyway :)
However, did you already have the .csv file open in Excel or some other 
app ? Or is is password protected maybe ?

Sorry not much help.

Nick .