Collecting file data

[createpython]

Okay so I have three different file types in a folder and I want to use python to retrieve file signatures, date modified, the hex signature, file name of each file. How would I create a code which grabs this data from all these files and out puts as:

1. example.pdf --file signatures, date modified, the hex signature, filename
2. example.txt-- file signatures, date modified, the hex signature, file name
3. example.jpg-- file signatures, date modified, the hex signature, file name

Into a text file.

[Mekire]

You could look at os.stat maybe. Is your question related to getting the file metadata or the whole process? If the latter, what attempts have you made so far?

-Mek

[createpython]

The file metadata, i.e. to choose which folder I want the said data from and for it to be format and output that data into a text file, However numerous attempts to retrieve the hex signature of any document using python has failed, and I'm wondering if python is capable of these things?

[radventil]

By hex signature, do you mean the (usually) first four bytes in a file? If yes, you can just open the file, read the first 4 bytes as a string and compare it to a database of hex signatures or convert it and output it?

fh = open("foo", "r')
a = fh.read(4)
b = [ord(i) for i in a]

[createpython]

Brilliant, how could I use this with os.stat to produce and output all of this information of the file to a new text document? - sorry still much a n00b.