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1 # pyxattr

3 This is the pyxattr module, a Python extension module which gives access

4 to the extended attributes for filesystem objects available in some

5 operating systems.

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21 repository is either at <http://git.k1024.org/pyxattr.git> or at

22 <https://github.com/iustin/pyxattr>.

23

24 ## Requirements

25

26 The current supported Python versions are 3.7+ (tested up to 3.10), or

27 PyPy versions 3.7+ (tested up to 3.9). The code should currently be

28 compatible down to Python 3.4, but such versions are no longer tested.

29

30 The library has been written and tested on Linux, kernel v2.4 or

31 later, with XFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems, and MacOS recent

32 versions. If any other platform implements the same behaviour,

33 pyxattr could be used.

34

35 To build the module from source, you will need both a Python

36 development environment/libraries and the C compiler, plus the

37 setuptools tool installed, and for building the documentation you need

38 to have Sphinx installed. The exact list of dependencies depends on

39 the operating system/distribution, but should be something along the

40 lines of `python3-devel` (RedHat), `python3-all-dev` (Debian), etc.

41

42 Alternatively, you can install directly from pip after installing the

43 above depedencies (C compiler, Python development libraries):

44

45 pip install pyxattr

46

47 Or you can install already compiled versions from your distribution,

48 e.g. in Debian:

49

50 sudo apt install python3-pyxattr

51

52 ## Basic example

53

54 >>> import xattr

55 >>> xattr.listxattr("file.txt")

56 ['user.mime_type']

57 >>> xattr.getxattr("file.txt", "user.mime_type")

58 'text/plain'

59 >>> xattr.setxattr("file.txt", "user.comment", "Simple text file")

60 >>> xattr.listxattr("file.txt")

61 ['user.mime_type', 'user.comment']

62 >>> xattr.removexattr ("file.txt", "user.comment")

63

64 ## License

65

67

68 pyxattr is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the

69 terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free

70 Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any

71 later version. See the COPYING file for the full license terms.

72

73 Note that previous versions had different licenses: version 0.3 was licensed

74 under LGPL version 3 (which, I realized later, is not compatible with GPLv2,

75 hence the change to LGPL 2.1), and even older versions were licensed under GPL

76 v2 or later.