import os,stat filename=r"u:\1.png" # filename=r"u:\D1\Days\Stefajir\core\misc\draggable.png" def is_sparse_file_win(path): try: import ctypes from ctypes import wintypes FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE = 0x00000200 GetFileAttributes = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetFileAttributesW GetFileAttributes.argtypes = [wintypes.LPCWSTR] GetFileAttributes.restype = wintypes.DWORD attrs = GetFileAttributes(path) return attrs & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE != 0 except: return False # import mmap # # def is_memory_mapped_file(path): # try: # with open(path, 'r+b') as f: # try: # mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0) # return True # except: # return False # except OSError: # return False # def is_windows_virtual_file(path): # try: # st = os.stat(path) # # Check if it's a character or block device (common for virtual files) # return stat.S_ISCHR(st.st_mode) or stat.S_ISBLK(st.st_mode) # except (OSError, AttributeError): # return False print(is_sparse_file_win(filename))