Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > The result should be uniform; either preserve permissions across the > board, or leave it to the mercy of the caller. I’m surprised by this report, as the code does a copystat(sourcedir, targetdir) since 2004 (#1048878). Anyhow, I think the second option would be better.
> I know there's an enhancement request already open to supply a > 'func=' kw argument to copytree. This is now implemented (copy_function argument), but does not help with directories, only with files. Recently I needed to call copytree and change the permissions of the destination, so I wanted to use a two-line custom copy_function (one line to call shutil.copy, one line for os.chmod), but I hadn’t understood that the custom function was not used for directory creation. I found out that shutil does a copystat on the created directories behind my back. So, I think this problem can be solved in a nice and b/w-compatible way by adding a new keyword argument, makedirs_func. I would like to fix this in stable versions too, but if another core developer argues that it should be considered a new feature, I won’t argue. ---------- nosy: +eric.araujo, georg.brandl, jlgijsbers title: shutil.copytree doesn't preserve directory permissions -> shutil.copytree doesn't give control over directory permissions versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1666318> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
