text: """Constants/functions for interpreting results of os.stat() and os.lstat().
  
  Suggested usage: from stat import *
  """
  
  # Indices for stat struct members in the tuple returned by os.stat()
  
  ST_MODE  = 0
  ST_INO   = 1
  ST_DEV   = 2
  ST_NLINK = 3
  ST_UID   = 4
  ST_GID   = 5
  ST_SIZE  = 6
  ST_ATIME = 7
  ST_MTIME = 8
  ST_CTIME = 9
  
  # Extract bits from the mode
  
  def S_IMODE(mode):
      return mode & 0o7777
  
  def S_IFMT(mode):
      return mode & 0o170000
  
  # Constants used as S_IFMT() for various file types
  # (not all are implemented on all systems)
  
  S_IFDIR  = 0o040000
  S_IFCHR  = 0o020000
  S_IFBLK  = 0o060000
  S_IFREG  = 0o100000
  S_IFIFO  = 0o010000
  S_IFLNK  = 0o120000
  S_IFSOCK = 0o140000
  
  # Functions to test for each file type
  
  def S_ISDIR(mode):
      return S_IFMT(mode) == S_IFDIR
  
  def S_ISCHR(mode):
      return S_IFMT(mode) == S_IFCHR
  
  def S_ISBLK(mode):
      return S_IFMT(mode) == S_IFBLK
  
  def S_ISREG(mode):
      return S_IFMT(mode) == S_IFREG
  
  def S_ISFIFO(mode):
      return S_IFMT(mode) == S_IFIFO
  
  def S_ISLNK(mode):
      return S_IFMT(mode) == S_IFLNK
  
  def S_ISSOCK(mode):
      return S_IFMT(mode) == S_IFSOCK
  
  # Names for permission bits
  
  S_ISUID = 0o4000
  S_ISGID = 0o2000
  S_ENFMT = S_ISGID
  S_ISVTX = 0o1000
  S_IREAD = 0o0400
  S_IWRITE = 0o0200
  S_IEXEC = 0o0100
  S_IRWXU = 0o0700
  S_IRUSR = 0o0400
  S_IWUSR = 0o0200
  S_IXUSR = 0o0100
  S_IRWXG = 0o0070
  S_IRGRP = 0o0040
  S_IWGRP = 0o0020
  S_IXGRP = 0o0010
  S_IRWXO = 0o0007
  S_IROTH = 0o0004
  S_IWOTH = 0o0002
  S_IXOTH = 0o0001
  
  # Names for file flags
  
  UF_NODUMP    = 0x00000001
  UF_IMMUTABLE = 0x00000002
  UF_APPEND    = 0x00000004
  UF_OPAQUE    = 0x00000008
  UF_NOUNLINK  = 0x00000010
  SF_ARCHIVED  = 0x00010000
  SF_IMMUTABLE = 0x00020000
  SF_APPEND    = 0x00040000
  SF_NOUNLINK  = 0x00100000
  SF_SNAPSHOT  = 0x00200000
  