diff -r 5fa855d20624 Lib/shutil.py
--- a/Lib/shutil.py	Thu Dec 03 22:26:36 2015 +0200
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py	Thu Dec 03 17:04:08 2015 -0600
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 """
 
 import os
+import os.path
 import sys
 import stat
 import fnmatch
@@ -1004,7 +1005,21 @@
         return _ntuple_diskusage(total, used, free)
 
 
-def chown(path, user=None, group=None):
+def _dir_walk(path):
+    ''' Get All Directories & Files for chown() '''
+
+    for dir_path, dir_names, file_names in os.walk(path):
+
+        # Directories
+        for dir_name in dir_names:
+            yield os.path.join(dir_path, dir_name)
+
+        # Files
+        for file_name in file_names:
+            yield os.path.join(dir_path, file_name)
+
+
+def chown(path, user=None, group=None, recursive=False):
     """Change owner user and group of the given path.
 
     user and group can be the uid/gid or the user/group names, and in that case,
@@ -1033,7 +1048,13 @@
         if _group is None:
             raise LookupError("no such group: {!r}".format(group))
 
-    os.chown(path, _user, _group)
+    # Do Default First
+    if not recursive:
+        os.chown(path, _user, _group)
+    else:
+        for recursive_path in _dir_walk(path):
+            os.chown(recursive_path, _user, _group)
+
 
 def get_terminal_size(fallback=(80, 24)):
     """Get the size of the terminal window.