[Python-Dev] Extending os.chown() to accept user/group names (original) (raw)

Petri Lehtinen petri at digip.org
Wed May 25 20:03:39 CEST 2011


Victor Stinner wrote:

Le mercredi 25 mai 2011 à 18:46 +0200, Charles-François Natali a écrit : > While we're at it, adding a "recursive" argument to this shutil.chown > could also be useful.

I don't like the idea of a recursive flag. I would prefer a "map-like" function to "apply" a function on all files of a directory. Something like shutil.applyrecursive(shutil.chown)...

FWIW, the chown program (in GNU coreutils at least) has a -R flag for recursive operation, and I've found it extremely useful on many situations.

Petri



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