[Tutor] file permissions

[Gabriel Farrell]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:52:20AM -0800, Danny Yoo wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Eric Walker wrote:
> 
> > Looking for easiest way to get a files permissions in linux.
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> What have you looked at so far?

I agree with Danny, the question lacks any evidence of prior
investigation on the part of the poster, and that makes it a lousy
candidate for the helpful guidance of the python tutor list.  The
documentation on this aspect of python, however, is pretty sparse, and
the answer's not exactly intuitive, so I thought I'd mention the
effbot's page about the os module as a good place to look, in addition
to the documentation Danny listed.

	http://effbot.org/librarybook/os.htm

What he's written there should be able to answer your question.

If I may hijack the thread, does anyone more knowledgeable than me
know why os.stat and stat are so low-level and esoteric?  Am I crazy
for wanting to replace

	oct(stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(thefile)[stat.ST_MODE]))

with, say,

	stat.getmode(os.stat(thefile))

or even

	os.getmode(thefile)

?