Change directory writable in windows using python

Question

In windows, the directories inside the C drive can be changed into writable manually by editing the security attributes of a directory providing full control to the user. How this can be done in Python?

My thinking was:

import os, stat
my_dir = 'C:\\Program Files\\Java'
os.chmod (my_dir, stat.S_IWRITE)

But no success.

Do anyone have idea?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '13 at 10:38

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Try like this,

os.chmod(my_dir,0o777) # read and write by everyone
os.chmod(my_dir,0o755)  # read and write by me, readable for everone else

Python chmod documentation

Note Although Windows supports chmod(), you can only set the file’s read-only flag with it (via the stat.S_IWRITE and stat.S_IREAD constants or a corresponding integer value). All other bits are ignored.

answered Oct 10 '13 at 10:38

Adem Öztaş

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0 is zero and o is last alphabet of zero? @Adem Öztaş – Perlita Oct 10 '13 at 10:42
@ Adem Öztaş still the access is denied, os.chmod(my_dir,0o777) did not work – Perlita Oct 10 '13 at 10:49
Because, you are not owner 'C:\\Program Files\\Java' ? – Adem Öztaş Oct 10 '13 at 10:51
i have logged into Windows7 as an administrator @Adem Öztaş – Perlita Oct 10 '13 at 10:53

Change directory writable in windows using python

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