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Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that?

From eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that?
Date 2016-04-29 10:09 -0500
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Jussi Piitulainen
<jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Adam Funk writes:
>> On 2016-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> Or just do os.access("directory/where/you/want/to/open/a/file",os.W_OK)
>>
>> That's what I'm doing now, but I prefer to give the user the error
>> message early on.
>
> Then do that early on.

Note that on Windows os.access only checks if a file is read-only.
There's a proposed update to check the file security. The patch needs
to be updated and needs to be reworked, but it's a low priority. For
the most part calling os.access isn't recommended.

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Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-04-26 14:30 +0100
  Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-26 09:57 -0400
    Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-04-28 14:02 +0100
      Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-28 16:24 +0300
      Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-04-28 13:34 +0000
        Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-04-29 10:49 +0100
          Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-04-29 14:51 +0300
            Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 10:09 -0500
            Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 23:53 +0000
  Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-27 01:46 +1000
    Re: Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2016-04-28 13:57 +0100

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