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How to change the user and group permissions for a directory, by name? Question: os.chown is exactly what I want, but I want to specify the user and group by name, not ID (I don’t know what they are). How can I do that? Asked By: mpen || Source Answers: You can use id -u …

What is the Python way for recursively setting file permissions? Question: What’s the “python way” to recursively set the owner and group to files in a directory? I could just pass a ‘chown -R’ command to shell, but I feel like I’m missing something obvious. I’m mucking about with this: import os path = “/tmp/foo” …