Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
I don't think we can change this for the maintenance branches. The code behaves
according to the documentation:
access(path, mode) -> True if granted, False otherwise
"False otherwise" is really meant that way: otherwise. The specific condition
is indeed not communicated. However, applications are entitled to not seeing
exceptions come out of this function.
I would be in favor of changing this in the long term, but then raise
exceptions in all cases. Alternatively, have it produce falsish values that
encapsulate the error code.
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