On 10/29/2012 10:13 PM, noydb wrote:
> I guess I get there eventually!
> This seems to work
>
> pdf_timeStamp =
> time.strftime("%m%d%y%H%M%S",time.localtime(os.path.getmtime(pdf)))
> intermediateTime = time.strptime(pdf_timeStamp, "%m%d%y%H%M%S")
> pdfFile_compareTime = time.mktime(intermediateTime)
>
> (and I'll do the same to the user entered date-n-time and then compare)
>
>
> Lastly, so can anyone chime in and tell me if this is a good method or not?
> Is there a better way?
Please read the rest of the thread in particular the message 3 hours ago
from Gary Herron
import datetime, os, stat
mtime = os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MTIME] // the files
modification time
dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime)
Now you can compare two datetimes simply by
if dt1 < dt2:
Or you can subtract them, and examine the difference.
What's the need for all that string conversion stuff?
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