Need Simple Way To Determine If File Is Executable

[Roger Upole]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> On 16 dic, 04:47, Tim Roberts <t... at probo.com> wrote:
>> >   os.stat(selected)[ST_MODE] & (S_IXUSR|S_IXGRP|S_IXOTH
>
>>This will tell you that "x.exe" is executable, even if "x.exe" contains
>> nothing but zeros.
>
> Isn't the same with any other recipe, portable or not? Unless the OS
> actually tries to load and examine the file contents, which the OS's
> I'm aware of, don't do.
>
> -- 
> Gabriel Genellina
>

On windows, you can use win32file.GetBinaryType to check if a file is actually
a binary executable.

        Roger




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