Comments on Lowkster - Pythonly yours: Where is that missing recursive chown for Python

I have created a report for this. Thanks Petri for...

2011-09-23T02:25:27.962-07:00

I have created a report for this. Thanks Petri for the link.

http://bugs.python.org/msg144439

Recursive chown was discussed a while back on pyth...

2011-09-23T00:35:51.917-07:00

Recursive chown was discussed a while back on python-dev mailing list here.

An issue was never opened, though, so maybe you should open one?

import shutil shutil.copyfile for cp shutil.copyt...

2011-09-22T11:06:58.811-07:00

import shutil

shutil.copyfile for cp
shutil.copytree for cp_r

and then there is difflib.

def recur_chown(starting_dir, uid, gid): for r...

2011-09-22T10:47:52.302-07:00

def recur_chown(starting_dir, uid, gid):
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(starting_dir):
os.chown(os.path.join(starting_dir, root), uid, gid)
for f in files:
os.chown(os.path.join(starting_dir, root, f), uid, gid)

Five lines of Python, not tested (although the white space and wrapping probably didn't come through properly). There are much more complex things that could be arguably made "built ins." Not sure that function is one of them.