I can confirm that os.mkdir('C:\\h') and os.path.exists('C:\\h') work
on Windows 8 Dev x64.On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2011.09.19 09:00 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: >> You said "the application does not create an app folder in the user's >> 'application data' directory" -- what does this mean, or rather, what >> is the specific folder you're expecting to have? If Python can't >> create the directory but you can do it manually, there may be some >> permission or access differences new to Windows 8. What does "echo >> %APPDATA%" give you? > I booted up the Win8 dev preview in a VM and os.environ['appdata'] gives > me the same result it would for Windows 7. Perhaps the problem lies in > the os.path.exists() call (that is, Win8 and Win7 react differently to > this call). I personally would try to create the directory and then > catch either a WindowsError (error 183) or an OSError (error 17) if the > directory already exists. I might play around with this later and post > some results. > > -- > CPython 3.2.2 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17640 | Thunderbird 6.0.2 > PGP/GPG Public Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
