On Jul 19, 4:27 am, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I checked the online Python documentation > > athttp://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 > athttp://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.)
Thank you, both Will and Hrvoje. Those links answer my questions. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
