Apparently, os.access was forgotten when the file system encoding was introduced in Python 2.2, and then it was again forgotten in PEP 277.
I've now fixed it in the trunk (posixmodule.c:2.334), and I wonder whether this is a backport candidate. People who try to invoke os.access with a non-ASCII filename on non-NT+ systems will get a UnicodeError; with the patch, the operation will succeed (assuming the characters are all supported in the file system encoding). Should this be backported?
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 say don't backport and amend the docs to state it is not Unicode-aware. If one was adventurous enough the docs could even include other ways to get the same info when Unicode had to be used.
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