Getting TypeError in Changing file permissions

[Pranav Bagora]

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

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

Please Help,
Pranav

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[Benjamin Niemann]

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

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

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.

 

[Peter Hansen]

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.

Which this should do:

os.chmod(outfile.name, 0700)

-Peter