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Re: os.access giving incorrect results on Windows

Date 2011-05-19 14:56 -0500
From Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com>
Subject Re: os.access giving incorrect results on Windows
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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 or all of os.access()?

In any case, this information should really be reflected in the docs.

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Re: os.access giving incorrect results on Windows Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-05-19 14:56 -0500

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