In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anoop wrote: > Please tell me how to check the existence of a file and the read > permission to the file using python script
Without knowing what your precise needs are, the best way is to open the file and try to read from it. If that succeeds, then you've got read access. Checking permissions as a separate step from opening the file exposes your code to a race condition where the permissions may be OK during the initial check, but then change to deny access before the subsequent open. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
