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Diffstat (limited to 'wqflask/utility/tools.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | wqflask/utility/tools.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/wqflask/utility/tools.py b/wqflask/utility/tools.py index 23d6fb62..5105ba42 100644 --- a/wqflask/utility/tools.py +++ b/wqflask/utility/tools.py @@ -113,6 +113,16 @@ def assert_dir(dir): raise Exception("ERROR: can not find directory "+dir) return dir +def assert_writable_dir(dir): + try: + fn = dir + "/test.txt" + fh = open( fn, 'w' ) + fh.write("I am writing this text to the file\n") + fh.close() + os.remove(fn) + except IOError: + raise Exception('Unable to write to directory ' + dir ) + return dir def mk_dir(dir): if not valid_path(dir): @@ -205,7 +215,7 @@ GENENETWORK_FILES = get_setting('GENENETWORK_FILES') PYLMM_COMMAND = pylmm_command() GEMMA_COMMAND = gemma_command() PLINK_COMMAND = plink_command() -TEMPDIR = tempdir() +TEMPDIR = tempdir() # defaults to UNIX TMPDIR from six import string_types |