Python OS Module provides an interface between Python Code and Operating System, through this interface by using different functions you can make some system calls to push OS to do stuff like Opening a File.
os.stat() method in Python performs stat() system call on the specified path, this method can be used for getting status of specified path.
Code Structure of os.stat() Methods
Syntax : os.stat(path)
Parameter path : String or bytes object representing some valid path
Return Type : This method os.stat() returns instance object stat_result of class os.stat_result which represents status of specified path
Table of Contents
Returned Types by os.stat() Method – Table
| Return Type Name | Description |
|---|---|
| st_mode | Represents file type and file mode bits |
| st_ino | Represents inode number on Unix and file index on windows platform |
| st_dev | Represents identifier of device on which file resides |
| st_nlink | Represents number of hard links |
| st_uid | Represents user identifier of file owner |
| st_gid | Represents group identifier of file owner |
| st_size | Represents size of file in bytes |
| st_atime | Represents time of most recent access |
| st_mtime | Represents time of most recent content modification |
| st_ctime | Represents time of most recent metadata chnage on Unix and creation on windows Operation System |
| st_atime_ns | Same as st_atime but time is expressed in nanoseconds |
| st_mtime_ns | Same as st_mtime but time is expressed in nanoseconds |
| st_ctime_ns | Same as st_ctime but time is expressed in nanoseconds |
| st_blocks | Represents number of 512-byte blocks allocated for file |
| st_rdev | Represents type of device, if its an inode device |
| st_flags | Represents user defined flags for file |
Using os.stat(path) Function in Python
Let’s create a folder Testing on desktop and then create a file inside it named somefile(May be empty or have some text). Then create a .py file inside Testing folder and put following code into that file.
# importing os module
import os
# path
path = '/users/josh/desktop/testing/somefile' # Instead of josh here put your username
# Get the status of
# the specified path
status = os.stat(path)
# Print the status
# of the specified path
print(status) # Output of above code will be
os.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=21221121,
st_dev=16777222, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=20,
st_size=55, st_atime=1615950895, st_mtime=1615950893, st_ctime=1615950894)