eels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can I check whether a directory is readable or not. Are there > differences between unix and windows?
The Pythonic way would be to just do what you need to do (in this case, presumably, read the directory) and catch the specific exception (in this case, presumably, OSError). try: # Do whatever needs a readable directory normal_reading_stuff() except OSError, e: # Do whatever we need to when the directory is unreadable print "Unable to read stuff:", e.strerror -- \ "I got contacts, but I only need them when I read, so I got | `\ flip-ups." -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list