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    Copyright
    Preface
    Ch. 1. Text
    Ch. 2. Files
    Introduction
    Recipe 2.1. Reading from a File
    Recipe 2.2. Writing to a File
    Recipe 2.3. Searching and Replacing Text in a File
    Recipe 2.4. Reading a Specific Line from a File
    Recipe 2.5. Counting Lines in a File
    Recipe 2.6. Processing Every Word in a File
    Recipe 2.7. Using Random-Access Input/Output
    Recipe 2.8. Updating a Random-Access File
    Recipe 2.9. Reading Data from zip Files
    Recipe 2.10. Handling a zip File Inside a String
    Recipe 2.11. Archiving a Tree of Files into a Compressed tar File
    Recipe 2.12. Sending Binary Data to Standard Output Under Windows
    Recipe 2.13. Using a C++-like iostream Syntax
    Recipe 2.14. Rewinding an Input File to the Beginning
    Recipe 2.15. Adapting a File-like Object to a True File Object
    Recipe 2.16. Walking Directory Trees
    Recipe 2.17. Swapping One File Extension for Another Throughout a Directory Tree
    Recipe 2.18. Finding a File Given a Search Path
    Recipe 2.19. Finding Files Given a Search Path and a Pattern
    Recipe 2.20. Finding a File on the Python Search Path
    Recipe 2.21. Dynamically Changing the PythonSearch Path
    Recipe 2.22. Computing the Relative Path from One Directory to Another
    Recipe 2.23. Reading an Unbuffered Character in a Cross-Platform Way
    Recipe 2.24. Counting Pages of PDF Documents on Mac OS X
    Recipe 2.25. Changing File Attributes on Windows
    Recipe 2.26. Extracting Text from OpenOffice.org Documents
    Recipe 2.27. Extracting Text from Microsoft Word Documents
    Recipe 2.28. File Locking Using a Cross-Platform API
    Recipe 2.29. Versioning Filenames
    Recipe 2.30. Calculating CRC-64 Cyclic Redundancy Checks
    Ch. 3. Time and Money
    Ch. 4. Python Shortcuts
    Ch. 5. Searching and Sorting
    Ch. 6. Object-Oriented Programming
    Ch. 7. Persistence and Databases
    Ch. 8. Debugging and Testing
    Ch. 9. Processes, Threads, and Synchronization
    Ch. 10. System Administration
    Ch. 11. User Interfaces
    Ch. 12. Processing XML
    Ch. 13. Network Programming
    Ch. 14. Web Programming
    Ch. 15. Distributed Programming
    Ch. 16. Programs About Programs
    Ch. 17. Extending and Embedding
    Ch. 18. Algorithms
    Ch. 19. Iterators and Generators
    Ch. 20. Descriptors, Decorators,and Metaclasses
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    Chapter 2. Files > Changing File Attributes on Windows

    Recipe 2.25. Changing File Attributes on Windows

    Credit: John Nielsen

    2.26.1. Problem

    You need to set the attributes of a file on Windows; for example, you may need to set the file as read-only, archived, and so on.


      

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