Hello all, In a script I would like to extract all device infos from block or character device. The "stat" function gives me most of the infos (mode, timestamp, user and group id, ...), however I did not find how to get the devices major and minor numbers. Of course I could do it by calling an external program, but is it possible to stay within python?
In the example below, I would like to get the major (8) and minor (0, 1, 2) numbers of /dev/sda{,1,2}. How can I get them? u...@host:~$ ls -l /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 30 19:10 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Nov 30 19:10 /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Nov 30 19:10 /dev/sda2 u...@host:~$ python3.1 -c 'import os for el in ["","1","2"]: print(os.stat("/dev/sda"+el));' posix.stat_result(st_mode=25008, st_ino=1776, st_dev=5, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=6, st_size=0, st_atime=1291140641, st_mtime=1291140640, st_ctime=1291140640) posix.stat_result(st_mode=25008, st_ino=1780, st_dev=5, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=6, st_size=0, st_atime=1291140644, st_mtime=1291140641, st_ctime=1291140641) posix.stat_result(st_mode=25008, st_ino=1781, st_dev=5, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=6, st_size=0, st_atime=1291140644, st_mtime=1291140641, st_ctime=1291140641) Thanks Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list