On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:25:02PM -0600, Efrat Regev wrote:[color=blue]
> I would like to recurse through a directory and make files (which match
> a specific criteria) read only. From searching the Internet, I found
>
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/303343
> which shows how to change file attributes to read only using the
> win32api module. That's great, but I was hoping there's a more portable way
> to do so. Is there a more portable API call to make files read only?[/color]
assuming the variable "path" is set to a string indicating the file in
question, try the following:
import os
import stat
# get the current file mode
mode = os.stat(path)[stat.ST_MODE]
# set it so it is not user, group, or other writable
os.chmod(path, mode & ~stat.S_IWUSR & ~stat.S_IWGRP & ~stat.S_IWOTH)
#or
os.chmod(path,mode & ~0222)
Chris
