os.chmod() is Python 2.7 only works for file?

Question

It seems os.chmod(path, stat.S_IWSUR) only works for file. Is it a known bug? How can I chmod for a whole folder including its content?

Answer 1

os.chmod is not intended to replicate all features of the chmod shell command; it's more like the chmod system call. Particularly, like the system call and unlike the shell command, it doesn't support a recursive chmod; you'd have to do that yourself with something like os.walk.

You can os.chmod a directory, but it won't chmod the directory's contents.