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diff --git a/Doc/library/stat.rst b/Doc/library/stat.rst index 7de98b6..02513df 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stat.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stat.rst @@ -104,6 +104,16 @@ Example:: if __name__ == '__main__': walktree(sys.argv[1], visitfile) +An additional utility function is provided to covert a file's mode in a human +readable string: + +.. function:: filemode(mode) + + Convert a file's mode to a string of the form '-rwxrwxrwx'. + + .. versionadded:: 3.3 + + All the variables below are simply symbolic indexes into the 10-tuple returned by :func:`os.stat`, :func:`os.fstat` or :func:`os.lstat`. @@ -172,10 +182,6 @@ The variables below define the flags used in the :data:`ST_MODE` field. Use of the functions above is more portable than use of the first set of flags: -.. data:: S_IFMT - - Bit mask for the file type bit fields. - .. data:: S_IFSOCK Socket. @@ -344,4 +350,3 @@ The following flags can be used in the *flags* argument of :func:`os.chflags`: The file is a snapshot file. See the \*BSD or Mac OS systems man page :manpage:`chflags(2)` for more information. - |