[issue17551] Windows - accessing drive with nothing mounted forces user interaction

2013-03-26 Thread Bob Alexander
New submission from Bob Alexander: Attempting to use os.path.exists on a Windows drive that is a mobile device mount point with nothing mounted pops up a dialog asking to insert a device. This makes it impossible to search a set of drives for a specific file without the possibility of

[issue17551] Windows - accessing drive with nothing mounted forces user interaction

2013-03-27 Thread Bob Alexander
Bob Alexander added the comment: Thanks for the prompt reply! Your suggested change does change the behavior to exactly the way I think it should work by default. Tried it on both Windows 7 and Vista; no popups when accessing a "mobile mount" drive with nothing in it, just quietly rep

[issue17551] Windows - accessing drive with nothing mounted forces user interaction

2013-03-30 Thread Bob Alexander
Bob Alexander added the comment: Thanks Terry. I agree that it's a bug. And, in the future I'll be more careful about trimming the "history" from my messages :-) Bob -- ___ Python tracker <http://bug