On May 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >before opening an issue to track the request, I'd like to ask advice >here about this: extend os.chown() to accept even user/group names >instead of just uid and gid. > >On a Unix system, you can call chown command passing either id or >names, so it seems (to me at least) natural to expect os.chown() to >behave similarly; but that's not the case. > >I can see os module wants to be a thin wrapper around OS syscalls and >chown(2) accepts only uid/gid as input, so what would be best: extend >os.chown() or provide a chown() function in shutil module for this >purpose?
I think it would be a nice feature, and I can see the conflict. OT1H you want to keep os.chown() a thin wrapper, but OTOH you'd rather not have to add a new, arguably more difficult to discover, function. Given those two choices, I still think I'd come down on adding a new function and shutil.chown() seems an appropriate place for it. Cheers, -Barry
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