pyxattr - A python module for accessing filesystem Extended Attributes

Welcome to the homepage of pyxattr. This python 2.4+ extension module allows you to manipulate the extended attributes present in some os/filesystem combinations.

Downloads: go here. Latest version is 0.5.0. The source repository is at git://git.k1024.org/pyxattr.git.

Requirements: pyxattr has been written and tested on Linux, kernel v 2.4, with XFS filesystems; ext2/ext3 should work also. If any other platform implements the same behavior, pyxattr could be used.

• python 2.4 or newer
• Operating system:
  • Linux, kernel v2.4, with libattr installed (all modern distributions should have this, under various names); also the filesystems you use must have EAs turned on, either as a compile or mount option

Documentation: see the epydoc-generated documentation here.

License: pyxattr is released under the GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or later. Copyright © 2002-2008 by Iustin Pop. Versions previous to 0.3 were released under GPL v2 or later.

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Last modified: Sun Dec 27 14:58:39 CET 2009