Brett C. wrote:
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 believe this is not really true, atleast not on Windows, and perhaps not in certain NFS cases, either. If there are ACLs on the file, access will consider them (or atleast it should), but no other method will.

Regards,
Martin
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