[Tutor] Plz help me from this

Steve Willoughby steve at alchemy.com
Wed Sep 5 08:29:37 CEST 2007


Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela wrote:
> Yes is very possible to do this with python.
> 
> Checkout the os.system and os.popen functions to run external commands
> (chmod, chown).

While those are ways of calling external commands, it is best to use 
built-in language features like os.chmod() and os.chown() whenver 
possible.  They will be much faster and less prone to errors and 
security issues.





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