Useful, robust shell utilities

[Peter Hansen]

Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> 
> There would be a big benefit to see something like:
> 
> res = chmod("-c", "-R", "u=rwx,g=rx,o=", a_file, another_file, a_directory)

Is that anything like

 os.system('chmod -c -R u=rwx,g=rx,o= %s %s %s' % (a_file, another_file, a_directory)) 

??

If so, why are you trying to rebuild the unix shell within Python?
(Or what am I missing?)

-Peter