RE: How to Check Write Access of a Folder on Windows

Some additional information - I am using python 2.5.1 version & it cannot be upgraded now to a higher version. Thanks Ayaskant- From: Ayaskanta Swain Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 4:11 PM To: 'python-list@python.org' Subject: How to Check Wri

How to Check Write Access of a Folder on Windows

Hi, I have a requirement where I need to check the write permissions on a directory on Windows platform. I don't want to use the python function os.access( ), since it does not work correctly on Windows. It is giving incorrect results to me. Another option of actually creating a temporary f

Re: os.access giving incorrect results on Windows

Hi Tim, Thanks for the reply and suggestions. I followed the patch provided by you in issue 2528, but the code looks very tricky to me. Anyways I wrote my Test.py script & tried only the def test_access_w(self): test case which is defined under class FileTests(unittest.TestCase) by providing my

os.access giving incorrect results on Windows

Hi All, Please help me in solving this issue. I want to check the write permissions on a directory on windows from my python script. I tried to use os.access(dirpath, os.W_OK) to check whether the user has write access or not, but it gives me incorrect result. It always gives me False even

os.popen command working differently on Windows

Hi All, Please help me in solving the following issue I am facing while executing my python script. Basically I am executing the OS specific move command to move a file/dir from one location to another. I am executing the 'mv' command on linux & the 'move' DOS command on windows machine from my