File Permission in Unix

[Michael Hudson]

Dave Swegen <dswegen at allstor-sw.co.uk> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:04:07PM +0200, Amit Weisman wrote:
> > Hi
> > How do one creates a file with specified permissions (e.g. , 777) within
> > Python ?
> 
> os.chmod is your friend. Use os.chown to change ownership of a file.

Or use os.open with appropriate flags if it's important that the file
be created with the appropriate permissions.  Then use os.fdopen to
get a nice friendly file object.

Cheers,
M.

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