def is_mutable():
    """Return True if this file or directory is mutable (by *somebody*,
        not necessarily you), False if it is is immutable. Note that a file
        might be mutable overall, but your reference to it might be
        read-only. On the other hand, all references to an immutable file
        will be read-only; there are no read-write references to an immutable
        file."""
