george young wrote: [...] > % ls -l .bashrc > -rw-r--r-- 1 gry users 2371 Jan 29 15:21 .bashrc > % python > >>>>import os >>>>s=os.stat('.bashrc') >>>>s.st_size > > 2371L You are right for this case. But I left out an important part: the "file" is an file-object of Zope (it does not exist in the FS). So I can not use the os module of python. Regards Sven