New submission from Bob Alexander: Attempting to use os.path.exists on a Windows drive that is a mobile device mount point with nothing mounted pops up a dialog asking to insert a device. This makes it impossible to search a set of drives for a specific file without the possibility of unnecessary user interaction -- for example looking for the drive that has a specific flash drive inserted.
This behavior is likely related to bug 9035 regarding "os.path.ismount" behavior on Windows. The more correct behavior (IMO) would be to quietly return exists=False for drives with nothing mounted. In fact, I tried the same operation with Java and Ruby programs, and both simply return false with no popup. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 185281 nosy: bobjalex priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Windows - accessing drive with nothing mounted forces user interaction type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17551> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
