On 28/02/2012 10:07, Andrea Crotti wrote:
How should I check if I can create files in a directory?I tried to simply check if the directory is writeable with this function: def is_writable(name): """Return true if the file is writable from the current user """ return os.access(name, os.W_OK) but that doesn't work at all on Windows, because for example if I create a new directory and do os.access(dirpath, os.W_OK) it returns false, even if I can create files inside without problems. So maybe the only solution that works is something like try: open(path.join('temp', 'w')) except OsError: return False else: os.remove(path.join('temp')) return True would it make sense?
This is remarkably complicated to do on Windows by checking Security APIs etc. If the try:except dance works for you, I recommend that you use it. (In the past, people who have asked this question have not wanted to use try-except because they didn't want the overhead of creating even a zero-length file) TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
