You may well be able to do it with the win32file module functions: GetFileAttributesEx or GetFileInformationByHandle It's not my area of expertise, but usually a bit of poking around in msdn.microsoft.com yields some results, as does Googling around for other people (often VB or Delphi-based) who have done the same thing.
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