Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
> I've been looking around the OS module and I haven't found anything
> useful yet. Does anyone know how to get the age of a file or directory
> in days? I'm using unix and don't seem to find anything that will help
> me. The only function that comes close so far is
>
> os.path.getctime(path)
>
>
> However this only gets creation time on Windows, on Unix it gets the the
> time of the last change. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -carl
>
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> Carl J. Van Arsdall
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Hi,
You should check out the datetime module. And convert dates to an
ordinal number.
today = datetime.date.today().toordinal()
age = today - datetime.date(year, month, day).toordinal()
Jim
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