On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a script that I execute as root, but I need to change the > ownership of the files created in the script to that of my username. > In GNU Bash, the command is something like "chown myusername:users". > What's the equivalent Python command? I know that there is a command > that uses numbers for the username and group, but is there a command > that would allow me to use "myusername" and "users" instead of numbers?
Simply use the `pwd` and `grp` modules to lookup the uid and gid for the username and group-name respectively. Then use the id-based chown function(s) you already came across. http://docs.python.org/library/pwd.html#pwd.getpwnam http://docs.python.org/library/grp.html#grp.getgrnam Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
