xattr 1.3.0


pip install xattr

  Latest version

Released: Oct 13, 2025


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Author: Bob Ippolito
Maintainer: Bob Ippolito
Requires Python: >=3.9

Classifiers

Environment
  • Console

Intended Audience
  • Developers

Natural Language
  • English

Operating System
  • MacOS :: MacOS X
  • POSIX :: Linux
  • POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD
  • POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris

Programming Language
  • Python
  • Python :: 3

Topic
  • Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

xattr is a Python wrapper for extended filesystem attributes.

xattr also ships with an xattr command line tool for viewing and editing extended filesystem attributes. On platforms that support or ship with the attr package, you may prefer to use the getfattr and setfattr command line tools from the attr package.

Extended attributes extend the basic attributes of files and directories in the file system. They are stored as name:data pairs associated with file system objects (files, directories, symlinks, etc).

Extended attributes are currently only available on Darwin 8.0+ (Mac OS X 10.4) and Linux 2.6+. Experimental support is included for Solaris and FreeBSD.

Python 3.9+ is required as of v1.3.0.

Versions older than v1.0.0 are no longer supported, but are available for use. v0.10.1 is the last version to support older versions of Python (including 2.7).

Note: On Linux, custom xattr keys need to be prefixed with the user namespace, ie: user.your_attr.

Note: If you need to read or write Spotlight metadata attributes on macOS, see osxmetadata which provides a native macOS means to do so without directly manipulating extended attributes. osxmetadata also provides access to other macOS metadata attributes and extended attributes via xattr.

Wheel compatibility matrix

Platform CPython 3.9 CPython 3.10 CPython 3.11 CPython 3.12 CPython 3.13 CPython 3.14 CPython (additional flags: t) 3.14
macosx_10_13_universal2
macosx_10_13_x86_64
macosx_10_15_universal2
macosx_10_15_x86_64
macosx_10_9_universal2
macosx_10_9_x86_64
macosx_11_0_arm64
manylinux1_x86_64
manylinux2014_aarch64
manylinux2014_x86_64
manylinux_2_17_aarch64
manylinux_2_17_x86_64
manylinux_2_5_x86_64
musllinux_1_2_aarch64
musllinux_1_2_x86_64

Files in release

xattr-1.3.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl (22.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (18.1KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (18.4KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp310-cp310-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl (37.6KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp310-cp310-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.whl (37.8KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp310-cp310-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (37.2KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp310-cp310-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (36.7KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp311-cp311-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl (22.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp311-cp311-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (18.1KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp311-cp311-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (18.4KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl (37.6KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.whl (37.8KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp311-cp311-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (37.2KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp311-cp311-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (36.7KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp312-cp312-macosx_10_13_universal2.whl (22.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp312-cp312-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl (18.1KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp312-cp312-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (18.4KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl (37.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.whl (38.0KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (37.3KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (36.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp313-cp313-macosx_10_13_universal2.whl (22.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp313-cp313-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl (18.1KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp313-cp313-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (18.4KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp313-cp313-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl (37.8KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp313-cp313-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.whl (38.0KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp313-cp313-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (37.3KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp313-cp313-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (36.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314-macosx_10_15_universal2.whl (23.0KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314-macosx_10_15_x86_64.whl (18.2KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (18.4KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl (37.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.whl (38.0KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (37.4KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (36.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314t-macosx_10_15_universal2.whl (23.2KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314t-macosx_10_15_x86_64.whl (18.4KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314t-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (18.6KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314t-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl (42.7KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314t-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.whl (42.8KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314t-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (42.3KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp314-cp314t-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (41.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl (22.9KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (18.1KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp39-cp39-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl (18.4KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp39-cp39-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl (37.6KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp39-cp39-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.whl (37.8KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp39-cp39-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl (37.2KiB)
xattr-1.3.0-cp39-cp39-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl (36.7KiB)
xattr-1.3.0.tar.gz (16.7KiB)
Extras:
Dependencies:
cffi (>=1.16.0)