[python-win32] Size of directory

[Dahlstrom, Roger]

You have to walk the directory tree and sum each file's size.  Windows does this too - try your right-click properties on a large directory and see how long it
takes.  That's also what du does.  There are, however, some recipes that should make this fairly simple for you - try this:
 
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/86554
 
 

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From: python-win32-bounces+rdahlstrom=directedge.com at python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces+rdahlstrom=directedge.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Tony Cappellini
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:03 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Size of directory



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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