Dreaded Newbie Question

[Gary Herron]

Dani Epstein wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> A newbie to Python (though currently coding in Delphi), I'm having a
> little difficulty tracking down stuff, although I have the tutorial and
> manuals. Where is the best place to get more info, and why is there no
> newsgroup for newbies like myself?
> 
> For the moment though my grateful thanks goes to anyone who can tell me
> how to get a file's size, and where that info is to be found in the
> references.
> 
> BTW, I'm running PythonWin 1.5.1
> --
> 
> Dani Epstein

Use os.stat to get a tuple of information about the file.  The item at
index 6 (symbolically stat.ST_SIZE) is the size in bytes.  The value is
an integer (or a long integer) depending on the particular os.

>>> import os, stat
>>> os.stat('.login')
(33188, 30804640L, 33554464, 1, 27117, 20, 620L, 932451656, 797807295,
925402414)
>>> os.stat('.login')[stat.ST_SIZE]
620L

Documentation is in the "Module os" section.

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