How to get file size

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bradstew
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How to get file size

Post by bradstew » Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:49 pm

I am using uPython on a STM32F405 using a modified pyboard build. I have a 128Mb SPI external flash connected. i am able to format it for FAT and can read and write files with no problems.

But I cannot get the size of a file on the flash. I have been logging data successfully. It's a large file and I can read the first part of the file using uos.read(1000). The command, os.listdir('/fc') correctly lists all the files on the flash. But I can't figure out how to get the size of the files.

any suggestions?

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Re: How to get file size

Post by Roberthh » Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:16 pm

os.stat()

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Re: How to get file size

Post by bradstew » Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:06 pm

Yes, that works. But the numbers returned are not documented.

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Re: How to get file size

Post by Roberthh » Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:25 pm

They are documented with Python. But you have just to look at the order of the return values. Symbolic names for the fields are not provided.
os.stat(name)[6] is the file size.

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Re: How to get file size

Post by bradstew » Wed Jan 08, 2020 10:54 pm

Works for me.
Thanks!

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