Alain Ketterlin <al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes: > loial <jldunn2...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I have a requirement to test the creation time of a file with the >> current time and raise a message if the file is more than 15 minutes >> old. >> Platform is Unix. >> I have looked at using os.path.getctime for the file creation time and >> time.time() for the current time, but is this the best approach? > > No. getctime() returns the last "change" time. The creation time is not > kept anywhere. This may still match your requirement though. And os.path > is the right package to look at for such tasks.
Sorry, it may happen that the filesystem you're working with provides that time, in which case it's called birthtime. This _may_ be available via os.stat(). -- Alain. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
