How to get the minor and major device numbers with os.stat ?

[Erik Max Francis]

Alain Tesio wrote:

> I expected major*256+minor, I've tried a lot of combinations at random
> and couldn't manage to get 17383 from (13,7)

For the answer to this, you should really be looking at man stat.  The
values here are implementation defined; Python's just mimicking whatever
the underlying OS is doing.  What you want is st_rdev:

>>> import os
>>> os.system('ls -l /dev/ttyS0')
crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  64 Jul 17  1994 /dev/ttyS0
0
>>> s = os.stat('/dev/ttyS0')
>>> tuple(s)
(8624, 9064L, 769L, 1, 0, 14, 0L, 1058628788, 774488935, 1058628789)
>>> s.st_rdev
1088
>>> divmod(1088, 256)
(4, 64)

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