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

[Łukasz Langa]

Wiadomość napisana przez Martin v. Löwis w dniu 2011-06-01, o godz. 08:48:

>> 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 think shutil.chown should aim to mimic chown(1). At least GNU chown
> has a -R flag (not sure about POSIX chown), and it's useful in practice.

cp(1) and rm(1) also have "-r", still there are `shutil.copytree` and `shutil.rmtree`. I would like to keep that consistency, e.g. to have `shutil.chown` and `shutil.chowntree` as previously discussed by Charles-François, Nick and Petri.

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Łukasz Langa
Senior Systems Architecture Engineer

IT Infrastructure Department
Grupa Allegro Sp. z o.o.