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

file, linux, ownership, permissions, python

Solution

I'm not really much of a python guy, but I was able to whip this up:

from os import stat
from pwd import getpwuid

def find_owner(filename):
    return getpwuid(stat(filename).st_uid).pw_name

Problem

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/somefile") owner3 ```

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