On 20/05/2011 12:26, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:
> Thanks for the reply and suggestions. I followed the patch provided by
> you in issue 2528, but the code looks very tricky to me.
OK, first a summary of the discussion on the python-dev thread.
Essentially it was felt that os.access was sufficiently s
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
On 20/05/2011 09:21, Tim Golden wrote:
[... re os.access on Windows ...]
(Sorry; just got back to this this morning). I might raise this on
python-dev.
If you want to follow, my post is here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-May/111530.html
TJG
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On 19/05/2011 21:40, Andrew Berg wrote:
On 2011.05.19 03:08 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
* A R_OK check always succeeds if the file's attributes can be read
at all
So is this the same as F_OK then, or does it return false if the user
isn't allowed to read permissions?
* A W_OK check fails if the
On 2011.05.19 03:08 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> * A R_OK check always succeeds if the file's attributes can be read
>at all
So is this the same as F_OK then, or does it return false if the user
isn't allowed to read permissions?
> * A W_OK check fails if the file has its DOS read-only attribute set
On 19/05/2011 20:56, Andrew Berg wrote:
On 2011.05.19 02:43 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
This is basically issue2528 [1].
The problem is that, although Windows (and Python)
expose a version of os.access to match the Posix function,
the meaning is so far removed on Windows as to be useless.
Does this a
On 2011.05.19 02:43 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> This is basically issue2528 [1].
> The problem is that, although Windows (and Python)
> expose a version of os.access to match the Posix function,
> the meaning is so far removed on Windows as to be useless.
Does this affect just os.W_OK and directories o
On 19/05/2011 20:37, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:
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
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
