Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The glob module is not affected because it ignores all OSErrors (including "Permission denied" and "Too many levels of symbolic links").
>>> import glob >>> glob.glob('**/*', recursive=True) ['dir2/file1', 'dir2/file2', 'dir2/dir3', 'dir1/file1', 'dir1/file2'] There is no special test for PermissionError. ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24120> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com