How to get a directory file descriptor?

[alex23]

On Nov 25, 9:53 pm, alex23 <wuwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 5:05 pm, Cong Ma <c... at bnu.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> > Can you give me some hint on getting a directory file descriptor in Python?
> > Besides, what's good about os.fchdir() if I can't get a directory fd in the
> > first place?
>
> Try: os.open('<dirname>', os.O_RDONLY)
>
> Check os for a list of the valid flag types.

Sorry, that should probably be os.O_DIRECTORY.