get_file_size

Ben Finney bignose-hates-spam at and-zip-does-too.com.au
Sun Jun 29 18:49:47 EDT 2003


On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:34:15 +1100, Egor Bolonev wrote:
> f=open('1','wb')
> print len(f)

You don't need to open the file to get its size.  The file's size is
stored in the directory metadata about the file, along with its
modification time, file name, permissions, etc.

    <http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-os.path.html#l2h-1292>

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