[Python-Dev] os.access and Unicode

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Brett C. wrote:
> If there was no other way to get os.access-like functionality, I would 
> say it should be backported.  But since there are other ways to figure 
> out everything that os.access can tell you

I believe this is not really true, atleast not on Windows, and perhaps
not in certain NFS cases, either. If there are ACLs on the file, access
will consider them (or atleast it should), but no other method will.

Regards,
Martin