On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Run this code and show us what it prints: > > import os > print(os.stat("F:\\") > print(os.access("F:\\", os.O_RDWR))
(With an extra close parenthesis on the first print call) I'm suspicious here that drive F might not even exist. I would expect a permissions error to be errno 13, but "invalid argument" seems really weird. Definitely these checks will be informative. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list