[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

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[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

Jaspar S. added the comment: I would love to use chown for a pathlib Path, too. It may not be used often, but if anyone want's to change all the os references from a file, it would be cool to have it on pathlib! -- nosy: +y0urself ___ Python

[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

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[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

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[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

Emmanuel Arias added the comment: Hello! I also use it frequently, but looking this issue I can agree with pitrou that there aren't lot of people that use chown. If I'm not wrong, there's a trend to move os to pathlib, perhaps chown should be in pathlib too :) I can work on this.

[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

Tom Cook added the comment: +1 this. I have a program that opens a UNIX socket as root for other processes to communicate with it. I need to set the permissions to 0o775 and set the owner gid to a specific group so that members of that group can communicate with the process. It's

[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

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[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Well, I don't know yet, but if we ever want chown() in pathlib, I think it should be higher-level and accept symbolic uids as well. -- nosy: +neologix ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't know about philosophical reasons ;-), but I don't think chown is very often used. Do you know of a context where it is? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20779

[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

Vajrasky Kok added the comment: Pragmatic reasons: I use chown moderately often. Usually as root, I want to change the uid of the files after generating a bunch of files. But I almost never changed gid. I am in two mind whether I should add lchown as well or not (just like lchmod) and make

[issue20779] Add pathlib.chown method

New submission from Vajrasky Kok: For pragmatic and philosophical reasons, I would argue that we should add chown to pathlib library. -- components: Library (Lib) files: add_chown_to_pathlib.patch keywords: patch messages: 212245 nosy: pitrou, vajrasky priority: normal severity: normal