url81-1 wrote: > 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
No, the st_ctime member isn't the creation time on *nix, from the os module docs: "st_ctime (platform dependent; time of most recent metadata change on Unix, or the time of creation on Windows)" I hope somebody does post a solution to this, as I'd like to know how to get the creation time of a file on linux, et. al. It may be impossible: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part3/section-1.html Peace, ~Simon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
