Whats the python way for recursively setting file permissions?
- by Geoff
What's the "python way" to recursively set the owner and group to files in a directory? I could just pass a 'chown -R' command to shell, but I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
I'm mucking about with this:
import os
path = "/tmp/foo"
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
for momo in dirs:
os.chown(momo, 502, 20)
This seems to work for setting the directory, but fails when applied to files. I suspect the files are not getting the whole path, so chown fails since it can't find the files. The error is:
'OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'foo.html'
What am I overlooking here?
