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

Sandro Tosi sandro.tosi at gmail.com
Thu May 26 22:15:57 CEST 2011


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 15:58, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:41:46 -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

I think it would be a nice feature, and I can see the conflict.  OT1H you want to keep os.chown() a thin wrapper, but OTOH you'd rather not have to add a new, arguably more difficult to discover, function.  Given those two choices, I still think I'd come down on adding a new function and shutil.chown() seems an appropriate place for it. +1 for shutil.chown().

and so shutil.chown() be it: http://bugs.python.org/issue12191

Currently, only the function for a single file is implemented, let's look later what to do for a recursive one.

Cheers,

Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi



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