how to find the owner of a file or directory in python

Question

I need a function or method in Python to find the owner of a file or directory.

The function should be like:

>>> find_owner(\"/home/somedir         


        

Answer 1

I stumbled across this recently, looking to get owner user and group information, so I thought I'd share what I came up with:

import os
from pwd import getpwuid
from grp import getgrgid

def get_file_ownership(filename):
    return (
        getpwuid(os.stat(filename).st_uid).pw_name,
        getgrgid(os.stat(filename).st_gid).gr_name
    )