Python and file attributes
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jul 29 08:06:00 GMT 2019
On Jul 28 18:12, Steven Penny wrote:
> The Windows version of Python can access file attributes:
>
> >>> import os
> >>> os.stat('C:\Recovery').st_file_attributes
> 8214
>
> https://docs.python.org/library/os#os.stat_result.st_file_attributes
>
> However the Cygwin version cannot:
>
> >>> import os
> >>> os.stat('C:\Recovery').st_file_attributes
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'os.stat_result' object has no attribute
> 'st_file_attributes'
>
> This is unexpected as other Cygwin tools can access this information:
>
> $ lsattr
> -hs------n-- ./Recovery
No, it's not unexpected. Attributes are new since Cygwin 3.0 so this
would have required a python rebuild. The Cygwin utilities lsattr/chattr
are very likely the *only* tools being able to access these attributes
at this time.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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