Need Simple Way To Determine If File Is Executable

John McMonagle jmcmonagle at velseis.com.au
Thu Dec 14 17:21:33 EST 2006


Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I have a program wherein I want one behavior when a file is set as executable
> and a different behavior if it is not.  Is there a simple way to determine
> whether a given named file is executable that does not resort to all the
> lowlevel ugliness of os.stat() AND that is portable across Win32 and *nix?
> 

os.access(pathToFile, os.X_OK)

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