On 2016-04-26, Random832 wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016, at 09:30, Adam Funk wrote:
>> I recently discovered pathlib in the Python 3 standard library, & find
>> it very useful, but I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't offer things
>> like is_readable() and is_writable. Is there a good reason for that?
>
> Well, one reason would be EAFP. Just try to open the file and see if it
> gives you a PermissionError.
I understand that in general, but the tool I'm working on here takes a
command-line option to specify an output directory, & I'd rather not
start processing the data (which involves GETting from a REST service,
processing, and PUTting back modifications to the data) only to crash
after the first batch because of a user error.
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