A little disappointed so far

phil hunt philh at cabalamat.org
Mon May 19 12:14:18 EDT 2003


On Mon, 19 May 2003 03:15:48 +0100, Graham Nicholls <graham at rockcons.co.uk> wrote:
>Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>
>>     Erik> os.access would probably be the most obvious function.
>> 
>> But wrong. ;-) os.access is almost never what you want.  Try
>> os.path.exists() instead.
>> 
>> Skip
>Interesting, why ? And why did I not find this - the books would just talk
>about the os module without saying what it offered beyond the specific
>function they were then talking about.

Why should the books duplicate the Python Library Reference? If they 
did, they'd be too big.

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