Getting TypeError in Changing file permissions

Benjamin Niemann pink at odahoda.de
Fri Jul 22 15:46:33 EDT 2005


Pranav Bagora wrote:

> Hello ,
> i am trying to change mode of files using the
> os.chmod()function. But i am getting an error
> 
> " os.chmod(outfile,0700)
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer,
> file found"

Looks as if your are using a file object (that you got from an open() call)
as the first parameter. What you need is a string with the path to the
file.

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Benjamin Niemann
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