"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 16 dic, 04:47, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > os.stat(selected)[ST_MODE] & (S_IXUSR|S_IXGRP|S_IXOTH > >>This will tell you that "x.exe" is executable, even if "x.exe" contains >> nothing but zeros. > >Isn't the same with any other recipe, portable or not? Unless the OS >actually tries to load and examine the file contents, which the OS's >I'm aware of, don't do.
Yes, of course, you're right. I was about to delve into a philosophical discussion about the difference in handling this between Linux and Windows, but they're both just conventions. One is based on an arbitrary flag, one is based on a file extension. Contents are irrelevant. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list