Storage values using os.stat(filename) - python-3.7

Question

I'm trying to create an EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY virus. I do not plan on spreading it. It's purpose is to grow a file to the point your storage is full and slow your computer down. It prints the size of the file every 0.001 seconds. With that, I also want to know how fast it is growing the file. The following code doesn't seem to let it run:
class Vstatus():
def _init_(Status):
Status.countspeed == True
Status.active == True
Status.growingspeed == 0
import time
import os
#Your storage is at risk of over-expansion. Please do not let this file run forever, as your storage will fill continuously.
#This is for educational purposes only.
while Vstatus.Status.countspeed == True:
f = open('file.txt', 'a')
f.write('W')
fsize = os.stat('file.txt')
Key1 = fsize
time.sleep(1)
Key2 = fsize
Vstatus.Status.growingspeed = (Key2 - Key1)
Vstatus.Status.countspeed = False
while Vstatus.Status.active == True:
time.sleep(0.001)
f = open('file.txt', 'a')
f.write('W')
fsize = os.stat('file.txt')
print('size:' + fsize.st_size.__str__() + ' at a speed of ' + Vstatus.Status.growingspeed + 'bytes per second.')
This is for Educational Purposes ONLY
The main error I keep getting when running the file is here:
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'os.stat_result' and 'os.stat_result'
What does this mean? I thought os.stat returned an integer Can I get a fix on this?

Answer 1

Vstatus.Status.growingspeed = (Key2 - Key1)
You can't subtract os.stat objects. Your code also has some other problems. Your loops will run sequentially, meaning that your first loop will try to estimate how quickly the file is being written to without writing anything to the file.
import time # Imports at the top
import os
class VStatus:
def __init__(self): # double underscores around __init__
self.countspeed = True # Assignment, not equality test
self.active = True
self.growingspeed = 0
status = VStatus() # Make a VStatus instance
# You need to do the speed estimation and file appending in the same loop
with open('file.txt', 'a+') as f: # Only open the file once
start = time.time() # Get the current time
starting_size = os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_size
while status.active: # Access the attribute of the VStatus instance
size = os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_size # Send file desciptor to stat
f.write('W') # Writing more than one character at a time will be your biggest speed up
f.flush() # make sure the byte is written
if status.countspeed:
diff = time.time() - start
if diff >= 1: # More than a second has gone by
status.countspeed = False
status.growingspeed = (os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_size - starting_size)/diff # get rate of growth
else:
print(f"size: {size} at a speed of {status.growingspeed}")