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

[Wes Turner]

path.py Path.choen supports names in addition to the uid/gid numbers which
os.chown supports:

https://pathpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#path.Path.chown
https://github.com/jaraco/path.py/blob/master/path.py#L1176

https://pathpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#path.Path.walk


On Monday, May 28, 2018, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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". =)
>
> --
> Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com
>
>
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