2011/5/26 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> > Le mercredi 25 mai 2011 à 18:46 +0200, Charles-François Natali a écrit : > > While we're at it, adding a "recursive" argument to this shutil.chown > > could also be useful. > > I don't like the idea of a recursive flag. I would prefer a "map-like" > function to "apply" a function on all files of a directory. Something > like shutil.apply_recursive(shutil.chown)... > > ... maybe with options to choose between deep-first search and > breadth-first search, filter (filenames, file size, files only, > directories only, other attributes?), directory before files (may be > need for chmod(0o000)), etc.
Pass an iterable to shutil.chown()? Then you could call it like: shutil.chown(os.walk(path)) Then of course you have the difficulty of wanting to pass either an iterator or a single path - probably prefer two functions e.g.: shutil.chown(path) shutil.chown_many(iter) Tim Delaney
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