access()
Gordon McMillan
gmcm at hypernet.com
Tue Feb 22 08:09:35 EST 2000
london999 wrote:
> I am trying to use access() in the os module. The online documentation
> shows access(path,mode).
> I don't know what value to put for mode. Tried os.X_OK, X_OK,"X_OK" and
> always get "exceptions.AttributeError".
os.access(<path>, os.X_OK) works for me.
> Where do I look up the possible values and why aren't they on the
> access() html page?
Because it wraps the c runtime routine of the same name, so
man access will tell you what you need to know.
- Gordon
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