[Python-Dev] Returning Windows file attribute information via os.stat()

[MRAB]

On 2014-06-10 05:02, Ben Hoyt wrote:
[snip]
>
> FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN = 2  # constant defined in Windows.h
>
> def is_hidden(path):
>      if startswith(os.path.basename(path), '.'):
>          return True
>      st = os.stat(path)
>      if hasattr(st, 'st_winattrs') and st.st_winattrs & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN:

That could be written more succinctly as:

       if getattr(st, 'st_winattrs', 0) & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN:

>          return True
>      return False
>