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authorFacundo Batista <facundobatista@gmail.com>2005-01-07 02:50:22 (GMT)
committerFacundo Batista <facundobatista@gmail.com>2005-01-07 02:50:22 (GMT)
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Added example to os.stat()
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@@ -931,7 +931,17 @@ the \ctype{stat} structure, namely:
\member{st_mtime} (time of most recent content modification),
\member{st_ctime}
(platform dependent; time of most recent metadata change on \UNIX, or
-the time of creation on Windows).
+the time of creation on Windows):
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+>>> import os
+>>> statinfo = os.stat('somefile.txt')
+>>> statinfo
+(33188, 422511L, 769L, 1, 1032, 100, 926L, 1105022698,1105022732, 1105022732)
+>>> statinfo.st_size
+926L
+>>>
+\end{verbatim}
\versionchanged [If \function{stat_float_times} returns true, the time
values are floats, measuring seconds. Fractions of a second may be