Sean DiZazzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On windows, this returns the size of the file as it _will be_, not the > size that it currently is. Is this a feature? What is the proper way > to get the current size of the file? I noticed > win32File.GetFileSize() Does that behave the way I expect? > > PS. I also tried os.stat()[6] >
I think all of those will return the current size of the file, but that may be the same as the final size: just because the data hasn't been copied doesn't mean the file space hasn't been allocated. You don't say how you are copying the file, but I seem to remember that Windows copy command pre- allocates the file at its final size (so as to reduce fragmentation) and then just copies the data after that. If you need to make sure you don't access a file until the copy has finished then get hwatever is doing the copy to copy it to a temporary filename in the same folder and rename it when complete. Then you just have to check for existence of the target file. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
