[Python-ideas] Add shutil.chown(..., recursive=False)

[Giampaolo Rodola']

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:13 PM, Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:

>
> On 28 May 2018, at 21:23, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...as in (not tested):
>
>     def _rchown(dir, user, group):
>         for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir, topdown=False):
>             for name in files:
>                 chown(os.path.join(root, name), user, group)
>
>     def chown(path, user=None, group=None, recursive=False):
>         if recursive and os.path.isdir(path):
>             _rchown(dir, user, group)
>         ...
>
> It appears like a common enough use case to me ("chown -R path").
> Thoughts?
>
>
> I wonder if it is very common.
> Don’t you have to be root or use sudo chown?
> In which case it is only python code running as root that could use this.
>
> Barry
>

You're right, I didn't think about that. I remember myself doing "chown -R
dir" every once in a while but didn't recall I prepended "sudo". =)

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Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com
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