On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: [..] > Well, that is getting to the raw basics. If it turns out to be that you > didn't > have permission to read the file in the first place..., nothing more > to say - you managed to waste the time of whoever replied to this thread.
Unlikely. I just tried is_tarfile'ing a valid tarball with 000 permissions and it throws an IOError (which makes more sense as well). -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers