Getting File Permissions

[Andrei Kulakov]

In article <f0fd5987.0205130436.5e6a6a64 at posting.google.com>,
Garry Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
> This has been asked before, but I cannot get the solution to work,
> quite simply, I want to get the permissions for a file, ideally in a
> rwx-rwx-rwx format, but anything I can get will do!
> 
> I have tried:
> 
> st = os.stat('/home/gaz')
> mode = st[stat.ST_MODE]
> print "mode is", octal(mode & 0777)
> 
> but it errors with:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "filepermissions.py", line 5, in ?
>     mode = st[stat.ST_MODE]
> NameError: name 'stat' is not defined
>
You have to import stat.

> 
> I know this must seem really simple, but I cannot find anything that
> actually works, do I have to import something which not obvious? octal
> does not even seem to be a valid command. Is there a different way to
> get this information, a module or something?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> Garry


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