[SOLVED] check permissions of directories in python

Issue

i want a python program that given a directory, it will return all directories within that directory that have 775 (rwxrwxr-x) permissions

thanks!

Solution

Neither answer recurses, though it's not entirely clear that that's what the OP wants. Here's a recursive approach (untested, but you get the idea):

import os
import stat
import sys

MODE = "775"

def mode_matches(mode, file):
    """Return True if 'file' matches 'mode'.

    'mode' should be an integer representing an octal mode (eg
    int("755", 8) -> 493).
    """
    # Extract the permissions bits from the file's (or
    # directory's) stat info.
    filemode = stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(file).st_mode)

    return filemode == mode

try:
    top = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError:
    top = '.'

try:
    mode = int(sys.argv[2], 8)
except IndexError:
    mode = MODE

# Convert mode to octal.
mode = int(mode, 8)

for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(top):
    dirs = [os.path.join(dirpath, x) for x in dirnames]
    for dirname in dirs:
        if mode_matches(mode, dirname):
            print dirname

Something similar is described in the stdlib documentation for stat.

Answered By - lt_kije

Answer Checked By - Dawn Plyler (WPSolving Volunteer)