On 14/11/12 02:14:59, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 14/11/2012 00:33, Ali Akhavan wrote: >> I am trying to open a file in 'w' mode open('file', 'wb'). open() will >> throw with IOError with errno 13 if the file is locked by another >> application or if user does not have permission to open/write to the >> file. >> >> How can I distinguish these two cases ? Namely, if some application >> has the file open or not.
I don't have a Windows machine at hand to try, but this might work: if exc.errno == 13: if os.access('file', os.W_OK): print "Locked by another process" else: print "No permission to write" > Anything here help http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/ ? That won't help: in Python 3.3, IOError with errno==13 has been replaced by PermissionError. It still doesn't tell you *why* you got a PermissionError. Hope this helps, -- HansM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list