[issue33140] shutil.chown on Windows

2021-03-19 Thread Eryk Sun
Eryk Sun added the comment: Apparently there's no one else interested in implementing shutil.chown() in Windows. Okay, but as long as that's the case, the definition should be skipped in Windows, which is an easy problem. -- components: -IO keywords: +easy versions: +Python 3.10,

[issue33140] shutil.chown on Windows

2018-03-25 Thread Eryk Sun
Eryk Sun added the comment: Oops, the SID for BUILTIN\Administrators is S-1-5-32-544. I left out the authority ID (5). -- ___ Python tracker

[issue33140] shutil.chown on Windows

2018-03-25 Thread Eryk Sun
New submission from Eryk Sun : shutil.chown is defined in Windows even though it's only written for Unix and only documented as available in Unix. Defining it should be skipped on Windows. Possibly in 3.8 shutil.chown could be implemented on Windows by calling a new