Change permissions for folder, all subfolders, and all files

Question

I am trying to call shutil.rmtree(some_folder), but it is causing an error that another process is using some file in the subtree. This is not the case, so I'm assuming permissions are not set correctly.

How can I change the permissions of all subfolders and files under some root to writeable, so I can call shutil.rmtree and get rid of them?

Thanks

Answer 1

On a platform with the chmod command available, you could do this:

subprocess.call(['chmod', '-R', '+w', some_folder])

Assuming that some_folder is a string that is the full-path to the folder you want to modify.