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print "Closed the file successfully!!"
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:
Read String is : This is test
Closed the file successfully!!
os.lstat(path)
Description
The method lstat() is very similar to fstat() and returns the information about a file, but do not follow symbolic
links. This is an alias for fstat() on platforms that do not support symbolic links, such as Windows.
Here is the structure returned by lstat method:
• st_dev: ID of device containing file
• st_ino: inode number
• st_mode: protection
• st_nlink: number of hard links
• st_uid: user ID of owner
• st_gid: group ID of owner
• st_rdev: device ID (if special file)
• st_size: total size, in bytes
• st_blksize: blocksize for filesystem I/O
• st_blocks: number of blocks allocated
• st_atime: time of last access
• st_mtime: time of last modification
• st_ctime: time of last status change
Syntax
Following is the syntax for lstat() method:
os.lstat(path)
Parameters
• path -- This is the file for which information would be returned.
Return Value
This method returns the information about a file.
Example
The following example shows the usage of lstat() method.
#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys
# Open a file
path = "/var/www/html/foo.txt"
fd = os.open( path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREAT )
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