Feature Requests item #1200804, was opened at 2005-05-12 18:26 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1200804&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Extension Modules Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Rejected Priority: 5 Submitted By: gyrof (gyrof) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: enhancing os.chown functionality Initial Comment: Hi, I don't think it is currently possible (with os.chown or any other Python library function) to change the groupId of a file without specifying the userId (like posix 'chgrp' does), or to change the userId without specifying the groupId. I would suggest adding the option of having os.chown accept None as either the userId or groupId, and having the function change only the 'non-None' portion of the file ownership. Thanks for your consideration. -g ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2005-05-20 23:41 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Jeff already provided the right analysis: It *is* currently possibly with os.chown to only change the groupid without specifying the userid: just pass -1 as the userid. The requested feature is already there, so I'm rejecting this request. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jeff Epler (jepler) Date: 2005-05-19 00:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=2772 the posix (os) module is intended as a thin wrapper around operating system services. The chown(2) syscall requires that owner and group both be specified. Possibly an enhanced chownonly/chgrp would find a home in the 'shutil' module. Possibly translating a parameter of None into -1 (which means 'no change') would be accepted as a patch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1200804&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
