On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:41:46 -0400 Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
> 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. +1 for shutil.chown(). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
