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Check read permission

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Write a Python program to check read and write permission on a path with os.access().

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Output
readable: True
writable: True
missing: False

Approach

  1. Pass os.R_OK / os.W_OK.

Solution

Python
import os open("perm.txt", "w").close()print("readable:", os.access("perm.txt", os.R_OK))print("writable:", os.access("perm.txt", os.W_OK))print("missing:", os.access("nope.txt", os.F_OK))
Output
readable: True
writable: True
missing: False

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