setting permissions to a file from linux.

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Chris <cwitts at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On Nov 18, 2:36?pm, gaurav kashyap <gauravkec2... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a text file in a directory on unix system.
> > Using a python program i want to change that file's permissions.
> > How could this be done.
> >
> > Thanks
> 
>  help(os.chmod)
>  Help on built-in function chmod in module nt:
> 
>  chmod(...)
>      chmod(path, mode)
> 
>      Change the access permissions of a file.

... and just watch out that we usually supply the arguments to chmod
in octal, so you want

os.chmod(0775, "directory")

rather than

os.chmod(775, "directory")

(leading 0 implies octal)

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