Getting File Permissions

[Hari]

Hi,
For getting permissions of a file, the following script has been
suggested in the same group

import os, stat
st = os.stat(myfile)
mode = st[stat.ST_MODE]
print "mode is", octal(mode & 0777)

But while executing I am getting error message as follows

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'octal' is not defined

Since I am new to python, can any one help me to solve this error?
A bunch of thanks in advance.

Hari

[Kent Johnson]

Re: Getting File Permissions

Hari wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
> For getting permissions of a file, the following script has been
> suggested in the same group
>
> import os, stat
> st = os.stat(myfile)
> mode = st[stat.ST_MODE]
> print "mode is", octal(mode & 0777)
>
> But while executing I am getting error message as follows
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> NameError: name 'octal' is not defined[/color]

The correct name is oct(). The docs on built-in functions are helpful here:

http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html

Kent

[Juho Schultz]

Re: Getting File Permissions

Hari wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
> For getting permissions of a file, the following script has been
> suggested in the same group
>
> import os, stat
> st = os.stat(myfile)
> mode = st[stat.ST_MODE]
> print "mode is", octal(mode & 0777)
>
> But while executing I am getting error message as follows
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> NameError: name 'octal' is not defined
>
> Since I am new to python, can any one help me to solve this error?
> A bunch of thanks in advance.
>
> Hari
>[/color]

You can use "oct" instead of "octal".

[Tim Chase]

Re: Getting File Permissions

> Traceback (most recent call last):[color=blue]
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> NameError: name 'octal' is not defined
>
> Since I am new to python, can any one help me to solve this error?[/color]

Looks like you just want the oct() function (not "octal()")
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> [x for x in dir(__builtins_ _) if x.lower().find( "oct")[/color][/color][/color]
!= -1]
['oct']

The __builtins__ will tell you what functions python
supports natively, and you can query against this list for
patterns, as done above.

-tkc