[Python-ideas] More friendly access to chmod

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 17:19:15 EST 2016


On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Mahmoud Hashemi <mahmoud at hatnote.com> wrote:
> I think it's a pretty common itch! Have you seen the boltons implementation?
> http://boltons.readthedocs.org/en/latest/fileutils.html#file-permissions

Yes it is, and no I haven't; everyone has a slightly different idea of
what makes a good API, and that's why I put that caveat onto my
suggestion. You can't make everyone happy, and APIs should not be
designed by committee :)

ChrisA


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