The other answers are correct, in that chmod -R 755 will set these permissions to all files and subfolders in the tree. But why on earth would you want to? It might make sense for the directories, but why set the execute bit on all the files? I suspect what you really want to do … Read more
To get the full path to the directory a Python file is contained in, write this in that file: import os dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) (Note that the incantation above won’t work if you’ve already used os.chdir() to change your current working directory, since the value of the __file__ constant is relative to the current working … Read more
os.remove() removes a file. os.rmdir() removes an empty directory. shutil.rmtree() deletes a directory and all its contents. Path objects from the Python 3.4+ pathlib module also expose these instance methods: pathlib.Path.unlink() removes a file or symbolic link. pathlib.Path.rmdir() removes an empty directory.
os.listdir() returns everything inside a directory — including both files and directories. os.path‘s isfile() can be used to only list files: from os import listdir from os.path import isfile, join onlyfiles = [f for f in listdir(mypath) if isfile(join(mypath, f))] Alternatively, os.walk() yields two lists for each directory it visits — one for files and … Read more