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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:09:32 +1100
Subject: Re: which is the right file path format in python3.4 ?
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Run this code and show us what it prints:
>
> import os
> print(os.stat("F:\\")
> print(os.access("F:\\", os.O_RDWR))

(With an extra close parenthesis on the first print call)

I'm suspicious here that drive F might not even exist. I would expect
a permissions error to be errno 13, but "invalid argument" seems
really weird. Definitely these checks will be informative.

ChrisA