billie wrote: > Another question, I'm sorry. > Do you got any idea about how to get permissions of a file/directory > given the username? > For example: I would like to know if C:\my_file.ext is readable/ > writable by user 'x' or not.
This is an unfortunately messy question. The easiest answer -- and I'm quite serious -- might be to have the user *try* to read it and to catch the exception. Quite apart from the mildly labyrinthine techniques for determining object security, you face a potential race condition: by the time you've tested and got your answer, someone could have changed the permissions. Unlikely, you'll admit, but possible enough to the try-except approach attractive. There are some examples of file security both in the CHM which comes with the pywin32 extensions and in the demos folder, on my machine: c:\python24\lib\site-packages\win32\demos\security I was going to start explaining win32 security terms in this reply, but perhaps I won't unless the try-it-and-see approach advocated above doesn't work! HTH somewhat TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
