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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016, at 09:30, Adam Funk wrote:
> I recently discovered pathlib in the Python 3 standard library, & find
> it very useful, but I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't offer things
> like is_readable() and is_writable.  Is there a good reason for that?

Well, one reason would be EAFP. Just try to open the file and see if it
gives you a PermissionError.