Published Jan 24 2021
Given the path to a file, you can get more information about it using several method provided by the os
module:
os.path.getsize()
returns the size of the fileos.path.getmtime()
returns the file last modified dateos.path.getctime()
returns the file creation date (equals to last modified date in Unix systems like macOS)Here is an example:
import os
filename = '/Users/flavio/test.txt'
print(os.path.getsize(filename))
print(os.path.getmtime(filename))
print(os.path.getctime(filename))
os.stat()
returns all the information you need in a concise way:
import os
filename = '/Users/flavio/test.txt'
print(os.stat(filename))
It returns a os.stat_result
object:
os.stat_result(st_mode=33252, st_ino=34409711, st_dev=16777224, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=20, st_size=189, st_atime=1605428774, st_mtime=1605428773, st_ctime=1605428773)
We have a lot of information here, including:
st_mode
the file type and permissionsst_ino
the inode numberst_dev
the device idst_uid
the file owner idst_gid
the file group idst_size
the file sizeand you can reach for individual properties:
import os
filename = '/Users/flavio/test.txt'
stats = os.stat(filename)
print(stats.st_size)
print(stats.st_mtime)
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