Thomas Kluyver added the comment: This issue was closed, but I believe the original bug reported was not fixed: trying to create a temporary file in a directory where you don't have write permissions hangs for a long time before failing with a misleading FileExistsError, rather than failing immediately with PermissionError.
I've just run into this on Python 3.5.1 while trying to use tempfile to check if a directory is writable - which I'm doing precisely because os.access() isn't useful on Windows! I find it hard to believe that there is no way to distinguish a failure because the name is already used for a subdirectory from a failure because we don't have permission to create a file. ---------- nosy: +takluyver _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22107> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
