Re: check whether directory is readable

2005-08-23 Thread Ben Finney
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, presum

Re: check whether directory is readable

2005-08-23 Thread Jonas Geiregat
eels wrote: > Hello, > how can I check whether a directory is readable or not. Are there > differences between unix and windows? As far as I know there aren't any differences, code: import os if access("/root", os.R_OK): print "You are able to read the /root dir" -- http://mail.python.