On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:25:02PM -0600, Efrat Regev wrote: > I would like to recurse through a directory and make files (which match > a specific criteria) read only. From searching the Internet, I found > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/303343 > which shows how to change file attributes to read only using the > win32api module. That's great, but I was hoping there's a more portable way > to do so. Is there a more portable API call to make files read only?
assuming the variable "path" is set to a string indicating the file in question, try the following: import os import stat # get the current file mode mode = os.stat(path)[stat.ST_MODE] # set it so it is not user, group, or other writable os.chmod(path, mode & ~stat.S_IWUSR & ~stat.S_IWGRP & ~stat.S_IWOTH) #or os.chmod(path,mode & ~0222) Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
