Drain, Theodore R (343P) wrote: > On Linux: > > import pylab as p > p.plot( [1,2,3] ) > p.savefig( 'test.ps' ) > p.savefig( 'test.png' ) > > ls -l test.* > -rw-r--r-- 1 --- ----- 17236 Apr 13 10:32 test.png > -rw------- 1 --- ----- 8640 Apr 13 10:32 test.ps >
> This is with a umask of 022. It looks to me like this is caused by > the > ps backend creating a temp file and then moving it to the requested file > name. The permissions in the /tmp directory are generally different than > a normal file system. > > Any thoughts on whether this is bug or not? It seems to me that using > a temp file is an implementation detail and calling savefig should > always create files w/ the user's permission settings. Yes, I think it is a bug. > I'm not sure how to "fix" this - the normal copy command preserves > the permissions. I guess the temp file could be opened and the data > read and then copied to the requested file. > An alternative, avoiding the copy operation, is to replace shutil.move(tmpfile, outfile) with open(outfile, 'w') mode = os.stat(outfile).st_mode shutil.move(tmpfile, outfile) os.chmod(outfile, mode) Eric > Ted > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
