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)

it appea

Answer 1

In python3:

import os
os.chmod("somefile", 0o664)

Remember to add the 0o prefix since permissions are set as an octal integer, and Python automatically treats any integer with a leading zero as octal. Otherwise, you are passing os.chmod("somefile", 1230) indeed, which is octal of 664.