August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
10h 14m
English
Content preview from Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook
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Getting file information
When users provide a path you really don't know what the path refers to. Is it a file? Is it a directory? Does it even exist?
Retrieving file information allows us to fetch details about the provided path, such as whether it points to a file and how big that file is.