I need to get a file creation date&time using python. I tried:
os.stat(r"path")[ST_CTIME]
But it is returning:
1263538277
This is not the creation date time. Is there a way to do it?
4 Answers
Why not?
>>> import time
>>> time.ctime(1263538277)
'Fri Jan 15 04:51:17 2010'
Looks like a valid creation time to me.
1 Comment
Adam Matan
+1 Short and elegant, if you're interested in the textual representation.
From bytes.com:
import os
import time
create_date = os.stat('/tmp/myfile.txt')[9]
print time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d", time.gmtime(create_date))
Which gives:
2009-11-25
You can also try:
print time.gmtime(create_date)
(2009, 11, 25, 13, 37, 9, 2, 329, 0)
For a more accurate timestamp.
Note that the time returned by time.gmtime() returns GMT; See the time module documentation for other functions, like localtime().
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tzot
Perhaps
os.stat('/tmp/myfile.txt').st_ctime would be better than os.stat('/tmp/myfile.txt')[9], as long as python ≥2.2Are you sure it isn't? Using unixtimestamp.com it converts to "01/18/2010 @ 7:34am" which at least makes sense.
The timestamp is returned as a time in seconds from 1970-01-01.
Comments
See http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.stat
st_ctime (platform dependent; time of most recent metadata change on Unix, or the time of creation on Windows)
Everything is OK.
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Adam Matan
I think he needs the conversion between the integer and a more readable time format.
os.stat(r'path').st_ctime