Re: os.path query functions behavior incorrect?

[Mike Rovner]

Beman Dawes wrote:
So are these os.path functions specified and implemented incorrectly? Should 
they instead throw exceptions for the above examples?
Works for me. (Win XP SP2, Py 2.4, only have c and d drives)
 os.path.exists('d:\\')
True
 os.path.exists('e:\\')
False
 os.path.exists('a:\\')
False

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Re: os.path query functions behavior incorrect?

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

It works fine under linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ python
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Feb  2 2005, 11:10:56)
[GCC 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
 import os.path
 os.path.exists('/blah')
False
 os.path.isdir('/blah')
False
 os.path.isdir('/home/martin')
True
 os.path.exists('/home/martin')
True


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Re: os.path query functions behavior incorrect?

[Georg Brandl]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 It works fine under linux
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ python
 Python 2.3.4 (#2, Feb  2 2005, 11:10:56)
 [GCC 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5)] on linux2
 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
 import os.path
 os.path.exists('/blah')
 False
 os.path.isdir('/blah')
 False
 os.path.isdir('/home/martin')
 True
 os.path.exists('/home/martin')
 True


Of course it does. This is not a problem with Unix-style filesystems
because there a directory either exists or not. However, under Windows,
the drive letters for floppies or CDs exists even if there is no media
inserted. It is, of course, questionable whether isdir() and exists()
should return True in this case.

mfg
Georg
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