fileinfo.py

# Script Name       : fileinfo.py
# Author                : Not sure where I got this from
# Created               : 28th November 2011
# Last Modified     :
# Version               : 1.0
# Modifications     :

# Description           : Show file information for a given file


# get file information using os.stat()
# tested with Python24 vegsaeat 25sep2006
from __future__ import print_function
import os
import sys
import stat   # index constants for os.stat()
import time

try_count = 16

while try_count:
    file_name = input("Enter a file name: ")      # pick a file you have
    fhand = open(file_name)
    count = 0
    for lines in fhand:
        count = count + 1
    fhand = open(file_name)
    inp = fhand.read()
    t_char = len(inp) 
    try_count >>= 1
    try:
        file_stats = os.stat(file_name)
        print ("This is os.stat",file_stats)
        break
    except OSError:
        print ("\nNameError : [%s] No such file or directory\n", file_name)

if try_count == 0:
    print ("Trial limit exceeded \nExiting program")
    sys.exit()
    
# create a dictionary to hold file info
file_info = {
    'fname': file_name,
    'fsize': file_stats[stat.ST_SIZE],
    'f_lm' : time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p",
                           time.localtime(file_stats[stat.ST_MTIME])),
    'f_la' : time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p",
                           time.localtime(file_stats[stat.ST_ATIME])),
    'f_ct' : time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p",
                           time.localtime(file_stats[stat.ST_CTIME])),
    'no_of_lines':count,
    't_char':t_char
}

print ("\nfile name =", file_info['fname'])
print ("file size =", file_info['fsize'] , "bytes")
print ("last modified =", file_info['f_lm'])
print ("last accessed =", file_info['f_la'])
print ("creation time =", file_info['f_ct'])
print ("Total number of lines are =", file_info['no_of_lines'])
print ("Total number of characters are =", file_info['t_char'])

if stat.S_ISDIR(file_stats[stat.ST_MODE]):
    print ("This a directory")
else:
    print ("This is not a directory\n")
    print ("A closer look at the os.stat(%s) tuple:" % file_name)
    print (file_stats)
    print ("\nThe above tuple has the following sequence:   ")
    print ("""st_mode (protection bits), st_ino (inode number), 
    st_dev (device),    st_nlink (number of hard links),    
    st_uid (user ID of owner),   st_gid (group ID of owner),    
    st_size (file size, bytes),  st_atime (last access time, seconds since epoch),  
    st_mtime (last modification time),   st_ctime (time of creation, Windows)"""
)