Re: How to control permission of file?

On 2006-06-30, K.S.Sreeram <sreeram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
When one open()s a file (that doesn't exist) for writing , how
does one control that file's permissions (it's "mode" in Unix
terms).

Check out 'os.open'
It returns a file descriptor, and if you need a file object you can use
'os.fdopen' on the file descriptor

Thanks. I thought maybe there was a less arcane way to do it.

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