os.lstat() - os

             
The method lstat() is very similar to fstat() and returns the information about a file, but do not follow symbolic links. This is an alias for fstat() on platforms that do not support symbolic links, such as Windows.


st_dev: ID of device containing file 
st_ino: inode number 
st_mode: protection 
st_nlink: number of hard links 
st_uid: user ID of owner 
st_gid: group ID of owner 
st_rdev: device ID (if special file) 
st_size: total size, in bytes 
st_blksize: blocksize for filesystem I/O 
st_blocks: number of blocks allocated 
st_atime: time of last access 
st_mtime: time of last modification 
st_ctime: time of last status change 

Syntax

os.lstat(path)

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

import os, sys

# Open a file
path = "/var/www/html/foo.txt"
fd = os.open( path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREAT )

# Close opened file
os.close( fd )

# Now get  the touple
info = os.lstat(path)

print "File Info :", info

# Now get uid of the file
print "UID of the file :%d" % info.st_uid

# Now get gid of the file
print "GID of the file :%d" % info.st_gid

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result:


File Info : (33261, 3450178L, 103L, 1, 500, 500, 0L, 
             1238866944, 1238866944, 1238948312)
UID of the file :500
GID of the file :500

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