os — Miscellaneous o 3.10 / os.chflags(path, flags, *, follow_symlinks=True)

Set the flags of path to the numeric flags. flags may take a combination (bitwise OR) of the following values (as defined in the stat module):

• stat.UF_NODUMP

• stat.UF_IMMUTABLE

• stat.UF_APPEND

• stat.UF_OPAQUE

• stat.UF_NOUNLINK

• stat.UF_COMPRESSED

• stat.UF_HIDDEN

• stat.SF_ARCHIVED

• stat.SF_IMMUTABLE

• stat.SF_APPEND

• stat.SF_NOUNLINK

• stat.SF_SNAPSHOT

This function can support not following symlinks.

Raises an auditing event os.chflags with arguments path, flags.

Availability: Unix.

New in version 3.3: The follow_symlinks argument.

Changed in version 3.6: Accepts a path-like object.