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Building a script to check size of file upon creation - mightyn00b - Apr-03-2020
Greetings, I built a script that checks the size of a file upon creation, but the value is definitely inaccurate (the file is not empty and thus should not be 0 bytes).
Here is what happens:
import os
def create_python_script(filename):
comments = "# Start of a new Python Program"
#filesize = 0
with open(filename, 'w') as new_file:
new_file.write(comments)
abspath = os.path.join(os.getcwd(),filename)
filesize = os.path.getsize(abspath)
return(filesize)
print(create_python_script('newprogram.py'))a zero is returned however it should be returning roughly 31 bytes:lamidotijjo Week2 $ ls -l
total 24
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lamidotijjo lamidotijjo 31 Apr 3 12:54 newprogram.py
As one can see it should read 31 bytes.
RE: Building a script to check size of file upon creation - mightyn00b - Apr-03-2020
I solved it, thanks!
RE: Building a script to check size of file upon creation - Larz60+ - Apr-04-2020
please share your solution s others can benefit.