The age of a file

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May 28th, 2004, 10:22 AM

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The age of a file

I python on a unix OS how can you find out the age of a file? I'm sorry I can't show you and example code because I don't even know where to start

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Code:

import os
import stat
import time

time.ctime(os.stat('file')[stat.ST_CTIME])

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percivall is right, but the object returned from os.stat now has attributes to make accessing the data easier. You can get the time of creation with

Code:

os.stat('path/to/file').st_ctime

To get the age of the file (in seconds) you need subtract this from the current time.

Code:

import time
import os

age = time.time() - os.stat('path/to/file').st_ctime

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Thank you, the two of you have been a great help

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