Forward-port r59310:
os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4c3369c..9cdcbc2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@
Library
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+- os.access now returns True on Windows for any existing directory.
+
- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created
on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence
of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded