[python-win32] Size of directory

[Larry Bates]

Tony Cappellini wrote:
> 
> When I right click on a directory with windows Explorer, a window is 
> displayed showing
> 
> Size:
> Size On Disk:
> Contains:
> Created:
> Attributes:
> (with the appropriate values for each entry)
> 
> 
> How do I get the same information via Python ?
> 
> I've looked at os.stat but
> 
> os.stat(r'C:\temp')[os.path.stat.ST_SIZE]
> 
> only returns the size of a "plain file" :(
> 
> 
> It's really a shame that windows doesn't have a built-in tool to show 
> you a tree of subdirectories, and how much space is occupied by each 
> subdirectory.
> 
> I guess I need to roll my own- once I know what the underlying call is 
> to get the size of each directory
> 
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You have to walk the directory and accumulate the size.  Even Explorer
does that (you can see if you do it on a really large directory).

-Larry