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2009

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Tested with

Devices(s): Nokia N95, Nokia E90

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Compatibility

Platform(s): S60 1st Edition, S60 2nd Edition, S60 3rd Edition

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Platform Security

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Keywords: os

Created: bogdan.galiceanu (17 Apr 2008)

Last edited: hamishwillee (08 May 2013)

Source code

import os, time
 
 
#Get the information for a file
statinfo = os.stat("C:\\Python\\ball.py")
 
#Display it
print "Size: " + str(statinfo.st_size)
print "Last modified: " + time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", time.localtime(statinfo.st_mtime))
print "Protection bits: " + str(statinfo.st_mode)
print "Inode number: " + str(statinfo.st_ino)
print "Device: " + str(statinfo.st_dev)
print "Number of hard links: " + str(statinfo.st_nlink)
print "User ID of owner: " + str(statinfo.st_uid)
print "Group ID of owner: " + str(statinfo.st_gid)

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The information about the file is displayed.