Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:
I agree that this follows Unix behaviour: a read-only file is a file whose
contents cannot be modified, but you can replace it with another totally
different file. You can also delete it, by the way (*).
Also, even if this weren't the desired behaviour, changing it would break
compatibility for existing scripts.
(*)
>>> open('b', 'w').write('b')
1
>>> os.chmod('b', 000)
>>> os.remove('b')
>>> open('b', 'r')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'b'
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nosy: +pitrou
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