check whether directory is readable

[eels]

Hello,
how can I check whether a directory is readable or not. Are there
differences between unix and windows?
Thank you for your hints, Eels

[Jonas Geiregat]

eels wrote:

Hello,
how can I check whether a directory is readable or not. Are there
differences between unix and windows?

As far as I know there aren't any differences,

code:

import os
if access("/root", os.R_OK):
print "You are able to read the /root dir"

[Ben Finney]

eels <ee**@nikocity.de> wrote:

how can I check whether a directory is readable or not. Are there
differences between unix and windows?

The Pythonic way would be to just do what you need to do (in this
case, presumably, read the directory) and catch the specific exception
(in this case, presumably, OSError).

try:
# Do whatever needs a readable directory
normal_reading_stuff()

except OSError, e:
# Do whatever we need to when the directory is unreadable
print "Unable to read stuff:", e.strerror

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