How to control permission of file?

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Fri Jun 30 16:15:21 EDT 2006


On 2006-06-30, K.S.Sreeram <sreeram at tachyontech.net> wrote:
> Grant Edwards 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).
>
> Check out 'os.open'
> It returns a file descriptor, and if you need a file object you can use
> 'os.fdopen' on the file descriptor

Thanks.  I thought maybe there was a less arcane way to do it.

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