[Tutor] File mode tests (original) (raw)

Bill Campbell bill at celestial.net
Fri Jul 30 02🔞15 CEST 2004


I'm just getting my feet wet with python after programming primarily in perl since perl-3.something. I've read the Harms and McDonald The Quick Python Book'', and O'Reilly's Learning Python'', but haven't been able to find python equivalents to these perl tests (lots of others in os.path, but not these :-).

if ( -x path ) # is is executable
if ( -r path ) # is it readable
if ( -w path ) # is it writeable

I would love to find documentation, something like ``python for the perl hacker'' that would help in the transition.

Bill

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