understanding stat module names

[David Bear]

I'm trying to use os.chmod and am refered to the stat module.

Is there are explanation of:
    * S_ISUID
    * S_ISGID
    * S_ENFMT
    * S_ISVTX
    * S_IREAD
    * S_IWRITE
    * S_IEXEC
    * S_IRWXU
    * S_IRUSR
    * S_IWUSR
    * S_IXUSR
    * S_IRWXG
    * S_IRGRP
    * S_IWGRP
    * S_IXGRP
    * S_IRWXO
    * S_IROTH
    * S_IWOTH
    * S_IXOTH

this isn't much help:

 dir(stat)
['ST_ATIME', 'ST_CTIME', 'ST_DEV', 'ST_GID', 'ST_INO', 'ST_MODE',
'ST_MTIME', 'ST_NLINK', 'ST_SIZE', 'ST_UID', 'S_ENFMT', 'S_IEXEC',
'S_IFBLK', 'S_IFCHR', 'S_IFDIR', 'S_IFIFO', 'S_IFLNK', 'S_IFMT', 'S_IFREG',
'S_IFSOCK', 'S_IMODE', 'S_IREAD', 'S_IRGRP', 'S_IROTH', 'S_IRUSR',
'S_IRWXG', 'S_IRWXO', 'S_IRWXU', 'S_ISBLK', 'S_ISCHR', 'S_ISDIR',
'S_ISFIFO', 'S_ISGID', 'S_ISLNK', 'S_ISREG', 'S_ISSOCK', 'S_ISUID',
'S_ISVTX', 'S_IWGRP', 'S_IWOTH', 'S_IWRITE', 'S_IWUSR', 'S_IXGRP',
'S_IXOTH', 'S_IXUSR', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__']
>>> print stat.__doc__
Constants/functions for interpreting results of os.stat() and os.lstat().

Suggested usage: from stat import *




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