| msg212245 - (view) |
Author: Vajrasky Kok (vajrasky) * |
Date: 2014-02-26 09:51 |
| For pragmatic and philosophical reasons, I would argue that we should add chown to pathlib library. |
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| msg212378 - (view) |
Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *  |
Date: 2014-02-27 19:28 |
| I don't know about philosophical reasons ;-), but I don't think chown is very often used. Do you know of a context where it is? |
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| msg212411 - (view) |
Author: Vajrasky Kok (vajrasky) * |
Date: 2014-02-28 07:48 |
| Pragmatic reasons: I use chown moderately often. Usually as root, I want to change the uid of the files after generating a bunch of files. But I almost never changed gid. I am in two mind whether I should add lchown as well or not (just like lchmod) and make the signature of pathlib.chown same as os.chown (with third parameter, follow_symbolic_links). If you close this as won't fix, I will not hold grudge against you, though. ;) |
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| msg212425 - (view) |
Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) * |
Date: 2014-02-28 12:34 |
| Well, I don't know yet, but if we ever want chown() in pathlib, I think it should be higher-level and accept symbolic uids as well. |
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| msg396629 - (view) |
Author: Tom Cook (Tom Cook) |
Date: 2021-06-28 10:15 |
| +1 this. I have a program that opens a UNIX socket as root for other processes to communicate with it. I need to set the permissions to 0o775 and set the owner gid to a specific group so that members of that group can communicate with the process. It's annoying to have to drop back to `os.chown(str(path), ...)` for this. |
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| msg398695 - (view) |
Author: Emmanuel Arias (eamanu) * |
Date: 2021-08-01 12:13 |
| Hello! I also use it frequently, but looking this issue I can agree with pitrou that there aren't lot of people that use chown. If I'm not wrong, there's a trend to move os to pathlib, perhaps chown should be in pathlib too :) I can work on this. |
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| msg412787 - (view) |
Author: Jaspar S. (y0urself) * |
Date: 2022-02-07 19:42 |
| I would love to use chown for a pathlib Path, too. It may not be used often, but if anyone want's to change all the os references from a file, it would be cool to have it on pathlib! |
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