How do you do a simple “chmod +x” from within python?

Question

I want to create a file from within a python script that is executable.

import os
import stat
os.chmod(\'somefile\', stat.S_IEXEC)

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Answer 1

If you're using Python 3.4+, you can use the standard library's convenient pathlib.

Its Path class has built-in chmod and stat methods.

from pathlib import Path
import stat


f = Path("/path/to/file.txt")
f.chmod(f.stat().st_mode | stat.S_IEXEC)