On 2006-06-30, Schüle Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When one open()s a file (that doesn't exist) for writing , how
>> does one control that file's permissions (it's "mode" in Unix
>> terms).
>
> what do you mean by "contor file's mode"?
Are you asking what a file's mode is?
Under Unix, it's a bitmapped value that determines what the
access permissions are for the file. There are individual bits
that enable permissions for user-read, user-write,
user-execute, group-read, group-write, group-execute,
other-read, other-write, other-execute, etc.
If you look at os.open() there's a "mode" parameter (the same
as the mode parameter in Unix's libc open()). I wanted to know
how to control a file's mode when it was created by the builtin
open().
I'm afraid I don't know how else to say it.
> usually you try to open and if you are not allowed you will
> get the exception
>
> >>> try:
> ... f = file("/etc/shadow")
> ... print f.read()
> ... except IOError, e:
> ... print e
> ...
> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/shadow'
> >>>
True, but I don't see what it has to do with my question.
> if you want to know more about file attributes
Um, thanks. I know all about file attributes.
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