Eric Azarcon wrote:
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My needs are pretty simple. Maybe you can point me in the right direction. I need to compare the creation time of a file with a date, and determine if I need to delete it. I know how to use stat to get the file creation time. I can get the current time. If I subtract the file ctime from the current time, how do i turn that delta into days?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ python Python 2.4 (#1, Dec 4 2004, 20:10:33) [GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from stat import ST_CTIME >>> from os import stat >>> s = stat("xmlpractical.txt") >>> s (33279, 1407374883881497L, 1410850211L, 1, 544, 513, 5859L, 1103556876, 1102382453, 1102292631) >>> ctime = s[ST_CTIME] >>> ctime 1102292631 >>> import time >>> print "File was created", (time.time() - ctime)/(3600*24), "days ago" File was created 14.6398609114 days ago
Does this do it?
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