Question

i want a python program that given a directory, it will return all directories within that directory that have 775 (rwxrwxr-x) permissions

thanks!

Answer 1

Neither answer recurses, though it’s not entirely clear that that’s what the OP wants. Here’s a recursive approach (untested, but you get the idea):

import os import stat import sys  MODE = '775'  def mode_matches(mode, file):     '''Return True if 'file' matches 'mode'.      'mode' should be an integer representing an octal mode (eg     int('755', 8) -> 493).     '''     # Extract the permissions bits from the file's (or     # directory's) stat info.     filemode = stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(file).st_mode)      return filemode == mode  try:     top = sys.argv[1] except IndexError:     top = '.'  try:     mode = int(sys.argv[2], 8) except IndexError:     mode = MODE  # Convert mode to octal. mode = int(mode, 8)  for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(top):     dirs = [os.path.join(dirpath, x) for x in dirnames]     for dirname in dirs:         if mode_matches(mode, dirname):             print dirname 

Something similar is described in the stdlib documentation for stat.