On 2012-10-30 00:04, Gary Herron wrote:
On 10/29/2012 04:13 PM, noydb wrote:
All,
I need help with a date and time comparison.
Say a user enters a date-n-time and a file on disk. I want to compare the date
and time of the file to the entered date-n-time; if the file is newer than the
entered date-n-time, add the file to a list to process.
How best to do? I have looked at the datetime module, tried a few things, no
luck.
Is os.stat a part of it? Tried, not sure of the output, the st_mtime/st_ctime
doesnt jive with the file's correct date and time. ??
Any help would be appreciated!
Use the datetime module (distributed with Python) to compare date/times.
You can turn a filesystem time into a datetime with something like the
following:
import datetime, os, stat
mtime = os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MTIME] // the
files modification time
dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime)
Instead of os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MTIME] you could use
os.path.getmtime(filename).
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