Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> added the comment: Although I'm the implementer of the patch (the concept was discussed way back on c.l.py after a naive poster's original request) I'm probably +0 myself. It's an attempt to replace os.access' next-to-useless behaviour on Windows with something which at least uses current security mechanisms to determine its answer.
However, it's just one function among the many Posixesque functions which don't quite map to Windows. And one which you might well be advised to avoid in any case since there's an race condition inherent in checking for a file's accessibility and then making use of that fact. Better to try and fall back. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2528> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
