file size
Robert W. Bill
rbill at digisprings.com
Fri Sep 8 15:32:40 EDT 2000
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Keith Murphy wrote:
> how can i get the size of a file in python?
>
> i've done:
> self.logfile = open(filename, 'a')
> and i'd like to do this next:
> len_log = self.logfile.size()
>
> ...is there something comparable?
>
> thanks,
> -->keith
Keith,
two things come to mind.
os.stat is often used for size info.
i.e.- len_log = os.stat(filename)[6]
However, because you are opening self.logfile for appending,
you can use:
self.logfile = open(filename, "a")
len_log = self.logfile.tell()
-robert
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