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How to change the permission of a directory using Python?
On a platform with the chmod command available, you could call the chmod command like this:
>>> import subprocess >>> subprocess.call(['chmod', '-R', '+w', 'my_folder'])
If you want to use the os module, you'll have to recursively write it:
Using os:
import os
def change_permissions_recursive(path, mode):
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path, topdown=False):
for dir in [os.path.join(root,d) for d in dirs]:
os.chmod(dir, mode)
for file in [os.path.join(root, f) for f in files]:
os.chmod(file, mode)
change_permissions_recursive('my_folder', 0o777)This will change the permissions of my_folder, all its files and subfolders to 0o777.
Updated on: 03-Oct-2019
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