file size 'mystery'

[Jay O'Connor]

In article <baddu9$dtj$1 at online.de>, "Sven Brandt"
<sven_NOSPAM at manastar.de> wrote:

> I'd like to determin the size of a file an do stuff at a certain size
> (here > 0 byte). In Python:


Take a look at os.stat(), you can use the os to tell you the file size
without reading the whole file in.


	fstats = os.stat(my_file)
	if fstats.st_size > 0:
		print "file has stuff"
	else: 
		print "file is empty"


Note: I think the file name you pass to os.stat() has to be the full path
name.
	

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