Library wish: rchown and rchmod

[Gerhard Häring]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:10:57AM +0200, Boyd Roberts wrote:
> "Gabriel Ambuehl" <gabriel_ambuehl at buz.ch> a écrit:
> > rchown and rchmod (recursive chown and recursive chmod) (I don't care
> > for the name but only for the functionality ;-).
> 
> i'd suggest something like ftw(3) and call 'em with that.

We already have os.path.walk. Though I'm anything but happy with this
interface. I normally build my recursive tree walking myself.

Other than that, I'd find the originally proposed functions useful.
That's something I often need on the shell.

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
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