Re: [Jython-users] Size of File

[Mike H. <th...@bi...>]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:51:45AM -0000, Dylan Browne wrote:
> Is there any simple way to find the size of a file in Python. I get my file
> by calling:
> 
> f = open('myfile','r')
> 
> I then want to determine wither the size in bytes, or the number of lines in
> the file. Normally I would use f.length(), but as it is a pyfile I am a bit
> stuck.

Can you change the order a little bit?

This way will work, without loading the file, which is a better if you
are worried about size anyway:

		  >>> import os,stat
		  >>> os.stat("file1.xml")[stat.ST_SIZE]
		  841L

		  C:\stuff\xml>dir file1.xml

		  03/21/2002  09:56a                 841 file1.xml

Also, it's good to have a bookmark on the official Python documentation,
too:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/

-- mikeh