"Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All that said, I think the only thing would be to add a line to
> the docs saying sthg like: This will always return False for X_OK under
> Win32. I'm happy to submit the patch, but is it worth it?
+1 on documenting the actual behaviour under windows. -1 on saying it
always returns False since it doesn't. It seems to return True if the file
exists including things like 'C:' or 'aux:'.
Bizarrely it seems that it even returns True for files in a folder for
which the user has no access. This isn't entirely surprising
('os.access(filename, os.R_OK)' returns True for unreadable files on
windows), but it does seem odd as it provides a way of verifying the
existence of files when you can't list the directory.
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