Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: This is not a Python bug. os.access() is just a wrapper around the POSIX access() function: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/faccessat.html
“If any access permissions are checked, each shall be checked individually, as described in XBD File Access Permissions, except that where that description refers to execute permission for a process with appropriate privileges, an implementation may indicate success for X_OK even if execute permission is not granted to any user.” So this seems to be a well-known portability problem accross Unix implementations. If you want to test the executable bits, just use os.stat(). ---------- nosy: +pitrou resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14706> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
