> Absolutely, which is why I consider it foolish for the OP to be > trying to deduce the meaning of os.stat by looking at the output > of the stat program, rather than studying the man page for the > stat system call.
Ah, ok. I missed that the OP had brought stat(1) into the discussion. Now it's all clear. Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list