Why does pathlib not have is_readable() & things like that?

[Adam Funk]

I recently discovered pathlib in the Python 3 standard library, & find
it very useful, but I'm a bit surprised that it doesn't offer things
like is_readable() and is_writable.  Is there a good reason for that?

I've been improvising with things like this:

import pathlib, os

path = pathlib.Path('some/directory')
writable = os.access(str(path), os.W_OK | os.X_OK) 

Is that the best way to do it?


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