Adrian Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I checked the online Python documentation at > http://python.org/doc/1.5.2/lib/module-stat.html > but it just says to "consult the documentation for your system.".
The page you're looking for is at http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/os-file-dir.html . For lstat it says "Like stat(), but do not follow symbolic links." For stat it says: Perform a stat() system call on the given path. The return value is an object whose attributes correspond to the members of the stat structure, namely: st_mode (protection bits), st_ino (inode number), st_dev (device), st_nlink (number of hard links), st_uid (user ID of owner), st_gid (group ID of owner), st_size (size of file, in bytes), st_atime (time of most recent access), st_mtime (time of most recent content modification), st_ctime (platform dependent; time of most recent metadata change on Unix, or the time of creation on Windows) [...] For backward compatibility, the return value of stat() is also accessible as a tuple of at least 10 integers giving the most important (and portable) members of the stat structure, in the order st_mode, st_ino, st_dev, st_nlink, st_uid, st_gid, st_size, st_atime, st_mtime, st_ctime. More items may be added at the end by some implementations. The standard module stat defines functions and constants that are useful for extracting information from a stat structure. (On Windows, some items are filled with dummy values.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
