Python: Get the size, permissions, owner, device, created, last modified and last accessed date time of a specified path
Python Operating System Services: Exercise-5 with Solution
Write a Python program to get the size, permissions, owner, device, created, last modified and last accessed date time of a specified path.
Sample Solution:
Python Code :
import os
import sys
import time
path = 'g:\\testpath\\'
print('Path Name ({}):'.format(path))
print('Size:', stat_info.st_size)
print('Permissions:', oct(stat_info.st_mode))
print('Owner:', stat_info.st_uid)
print('Device:', stat_info.st_dev)
print('Created :', time.ctime(stat_info.st_ctime))
print('Last modified:', time.ctime(stat_info.st_mtime))
print('Last accessed:', time.ctime(stat_info.st_atime))
Sample Output:
Path Name (g:\testpath\): Size: 546 Permissions: 0o100666 Owner: 0 Device: 4235770541 Created : Wed Jan 15 11:21:42 2020 Last modified: Thu Jan 16 15:32:11 2020 Last accessed: Thu Jan 16 15:32:11 2020
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Find current directory and file's directory:
To get the full path to the directory a Python file is contained in, write this in that file:
import os dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
(Note that the incantation above won't work if you've already used os.chdir() to change your current working directory, since the value of the __file__ constant is relative to the current working directory and is not changed by an os.chdir() call.)
To get the current working directory use
import os cwd = os.getcwd()
Documentation references for the modules, constants and functions used above:
- The os and os.path modules.
- The __file__ constant
- os.path.realpath(path) (returns "the canonical path of the specified filename, eliminating any symbolic links encountered in the path")
- os.path.dirname(path) (returns "the directory name of pathname path")
- os.getcwd() (returns "a string representing the current working directory")
- os.chdir(path) ("change the current working directory to path")
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