On Aug 13, 8:28 pm, Esmail <ebo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Essentially all I want to know the size of a directory, and the size
> of a zipped tarball so that I can compute/report the compression ratio.
>
> The code I have seems hideous, but it seems to work. Surely there is an
> easier,more elegant way to do this?
>
> dir_size = os.popen('du -sk somename')
> data = dir_size.readlines()
> dir_size = int(data[0].split()[0])
> print 'dir size: ', dir_size
>
> tar_size = os.popen('ls -s somename.tar.gz')
> data = tar_size.readlines()
> tar_size = int(data[0].split()[0])
> print 'tar size: ', tar_size
>
> Thanks
> Esmail
Try using os.path.getsize(somename.tar.gz)
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