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os.DirEntry.inode()

inode()

Return the inode number of the entry.

The result is cached on the DirEntry object. Use os.stat(entry.path, follow_symlinks=False).st_ino to fetch up-to-date information.

On the first, uncached call, a system call is required on Windows but not on Unix.

Links:

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/os.html#os.DirEntry.inode

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2016-10-07 17:38:46

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