os.stat() ?

Agent Drek drek at smashpow.net
Sun Sep 9 17:23:15 EDT 2001


On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Agent Drek wrote:
> 
> > Am I wrong in thinking that this should return a value that chmod(1)
> > would expect?
> >
> > $ touch myfile
> > $ ls -l myfile
> > -rw-r--r--  1 drek  pow  0 Sep  9 17:07 myfile
> >
> > import os, stat
> > print os.stat('myfile')[stat.ST_MODE] & 0777
> >
> > I get '420' from os.stat
> >
> > python2.1.1 on FreeBSD
> >
> > I'm looking for the best way to get a list of the full attributes of
> > a file.
> 
> >>> print oct(420)
> 0644
> 
> 

/me smacks his forehead

thanks.

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