Hi folks,
As pointed out to me recently in an issue report [1] on my scandir
module, Python's os.stat() simply discards most of the file attribute
information fetched via the Win32 system calls. On Windows, os.stat()
calls CreateFile to open the file and get the dwFileAttributes value,
but it throws it all away except the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY and
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY bits. See CPython source at [2].
Given that os.stat() returns extended, platform-specific file
attributes on Linux and OS X platforms (see [3] -- for example,
st_blocks, st_rsize, etc), it seems that Windows is something of a
second-class citizen here.
There are several questions on StackOverflow about how to get this
information on Windows, and one has to resort to ctypes. For example,
[4].
To solve this problem, what do people think about adding an
"st_winattrs" attribute to the object returned by os.stat() on
Windows?
Then, similarly to existing code like hasattr(st, 'st_blocks') on
Linux, you could write a cross-platform function to determine if a
file was hidden, something like so:
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN = 2 # constant defined in Windows.h
def is_hidden(path):
if startswith(os.path.basename(path), '.'):
return True
st = os.stat(path)
if hasattr(st, 'st_winattrs') and st.st_winattrs & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN:
return True
return False
I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on this.
Thanks,
Ben.
[1]: https://github.com/benhoyt/scandir/issues/22
[2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/posixmodule.c#L1462
[3]: https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/os.html#os.stat
[4]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6365265
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