Question

python3.8 os.stat number to letter

I am currently using os.stat to get file permission in string(rwx), owner(in letter), group(in letter)

I tried os.state.filemode but it does not work for my python version. Also I cannot find anything at I can change to string for owner and group.

Answer 1

# to get file permission of os.stat number to string we stat library not os.stat

# to get owner of file we use stat to get user id by st_uid which is a number to get actual username we use pwd library

# to get group of file we use stat to get group id by st_gid which is a number to get actual groupname we use grp library

import os

import stat

import pwd

import grp

f = os.stat(filepath)

permission = stat.filemode(os.st_mode)

owner = pwd.getpwuid(f.st_uid).pw_name
group = grp.getgrgid(f.st_gid).gr_name