Re: File object question

S. D. Rose wrote: 
Hello all.
  If I read a binary file:

file = open('c:\\logo.gif', 'rw'') # Read from FS as one way to get the
object, d/l from website another...
file.read()

is there anyway I can determine the 'size' of the object file? (Without
going to the filesystem and reading the filesize from the directory ...)


Once you have read the data you can get the size of that:
d = file.read()
print len(d)

Is that what you mean? Otherwise I don't know how you can get the size of a file without asking the filesystem...

Kent
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