Shutil module in Python provides many functions of high-level operations on files and collections of files. It comes under Python’s standard utility modules. This module helps in automating the process of copying and removal of files and directories.
shutil.copymode() method in Python is used to copy the permission bits from the given source path to given destination path.
The shutil.copymode() method does not affect the file content or owner and group information.
Syntax: shutil.copymode(source, destination, *, follow_symlinks = True)
Parameter:
source: A string representing the path of the source file.
destination: A string representing the path of the destination file.
follow_symlinks (optional) : The default value of this parameter is True. If it is False and source and destination both refers to a symbolic link then the shutil.copymode() method will try to modify the mode of destination (which is a symbolic link ) itself rather than the file it points to.
Note: The ‘*’ in parameter list indicates that all following parameters (Here in our case ‘follow_symlinks’) are keyword-only parameters and they can be provided using their name, not as positional parameter.
Return Type: This method does not return any value.
Code: Use of shutil.copymode() method to copy permission bits from source path to destination path
Python3
# Python program to explain shutil.copymode() method # importing os module import os# importing shutil module import shutil# Source file pathsrc = "/home/ihritik/Desktop/sam3.pl"# Destination file pathdest = "/home/ihritik/Desktop/encry.py"# Print the permission bits # of source and destination path# As we know, st_mode attribute # of ‘stat_result’ object returned# by os.stat() method is an integer # which represents file type and # file mode bits (permissions)# So, here integere is converted into octal form# to get typical octal permissions.# Last 3 digit represents the permission bits# and rest digits represents the file typeprint("Before using shutil.copymode() method:")print("Permission bits of source:", oct(os.stat(src).st_mode)[-3:])print("Permission bits of destination:", oct(os.stat(dest).st_mode)[-3:]) # Copy the permission bits# from source to destinationshutil.copymode(src, dest)# Print the permission bits # of destination pathprint("\nAfter using shutil.copymode() method:")print("Permission bits of destination:", oct(os.stat(dest).st_mode)[-3:]) |
Before using shutil.copymode() method: Permission bits of source: 664 Permission bits of destination: 777 After using shutil.copymode() method: Permission bits of destination: 664
