On 19/05/2011 20:56, Andrew Berg wrote:
On 2011.05.19 02:43 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
This is basically issue2528 [1].
The problem is that, although Windows (and Python)
expose a version of os.access to match the Posix function,
the meaning is so far removed on Windows as to be useless.
Does this affect just os.W_OK and directories or all of os.access()?
In any case, this information should really be reflected in the docs.
The current code is very naive:
* A R_OK check always succeeds if the file's attributes can be read
at all
* A W_OK check fails if the file has its DOS read-only attribute set
* A W_OK check always succeeds for a directory (because read-only means
something else for directories).
Would you care to propose some wording for the docs? I'm quite happy
to commit if we can come to an agreement.
TJG
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