Getting other file permissions

[Florian Lindner]

Hello,
on a Unix System I want to get the file permissions for other. How to get
this? Is os.stat("file").st_mode the right way? How to interpret the
output?

Thx,
Florian

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hello,
on a Unix System I want to get the file permissions for other. How to get
this? Is os.stat("file").st_mode the right way? How to interpret the
output?

man 2 stat

 

[Richard Townsend]

on a Unix System I want to get the file permissions for other. How to get
this? Is os.stat("file").st_mode the right way? How to interpret the
output?

See S_IMODE(mode) on page:

http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.4/lib/module-stat.html