Actually this has nothing to do with datetime.datetime -- he's asking how to find the created time of the directory.
Python has a builtin module called "stat" (afer sys/stat.h) which includes ST_ATIME, ST_MTIME, ST_CTIME members which are times accessed, modified, and created, respectively. Best, Earle Ady Jim wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > > > > Carl J. Van Arsdall > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Build and Release > > MontaVista Software > > 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
