UID/GID in python

Matthew Dixon Cowles matt at mondoinfo.com
Wed Feb 7 16:11:05 EST 2001


On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:58:56 -0500, Jay Collins <jcollin at exis.net>
wrote:

>What is the best way to get the uid.gid of a file in python?

os.stat("foo")[stat.ST_UID]

and similarly with stat.ST_GID

>is there someting that when you do like info(filename) returns the
>gid,uid, file size times etc?

os.stat() returns the data as a tuple and the stat module has symbolic
names for the items in the tuple.

Regards,
Matt



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