Re: File date attribute

2006-01-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Bruce R Graham wrote: > I have most of the pieces in place, except I can't find out how to > retrieve the date modified attribute of a file. Does anybody know how > to do that? t = os.path.getmtime(filename) returns the timestamp as seconds since the epoch. see the "time" and "datetime" modules

Re: File date attribute

2006-01-28 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Bruce R Graham enlightened us with: > Run a script in cron.daily. The script should check a timestamp > placed by the last occurrence of that script. Then check my home > folder for files modified between that timestamp and now. Then send > those files off to gmail. > I have most of the pieces in p

File date attribute

2006-01-28 Thread Bruce R Graham
Hi: am a Newbie and this is my first script: We were recently burgled and had our computers stolen. Easy to replace, but the data that was lost is years and years of work. I've investigated offsite data backup but it seems expensive. In any case, the data we have is not volumous. Rather, would like