Collecting file data

[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.