Getting TypeError in Changing file permissions

[Pranav Bagora]

Hello ,
i am trying to change mode of files using the
os.chmod()funct ion. But i am getting an error

" os.chmod(outfil e,0700)
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer,
file found"

Please Help,
Pranav

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[Benjamin Niemann]

Re: Getting TypeError in Changing file permissions

Pranav Bagora wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello ,
> i am trying to change mode of files using the
> os.chmod()funct ion. But i am getting an error
>
> " os.chmod(outfil e,0700)
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer,
> file found"[/color]

Looks as if your are using a file object (that you got from an open() call)
as the first parameter. What you need is a string with the path to the
file.

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Benjamin Niemann
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[Peter Hansen]

Re: Getting TypeError in Changing file permissions

Benjamin Niemann wrote:[color=blue]
> Pranav Bagora wrote:[color=green]
>>" os.chmod(outfil e,0700)
>>TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer,
>>file found"[/color]
>
> Looks as if your are using a file object (that you got from an open() call)
> as the first parameter. What you need is a string with the path to the
> file.[/color]

Which this should do:

os.chmod(outfil e.name, 0700)

-Peter