os.stat() ?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ignacio at openservices.net
Sun Sep 9 17:20:12 EDT 2001


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

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>





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