Re: Get age of a file/dir

Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
I've been looking around the OS module and I haven't found anything
useful yet. Does anyone know how to get the age of a file or directory
in days? I'm using unix and don't seem to find anything that will help
me. The only function that comes close so far is

os.path.getctime(path)


However this only gets creation time on Windows, on Unix it gets the the
time of the last change. Any ideas?

Thanks!

-carl

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Carl J. Van Arsdall
cvanarsdall@xxxxxxxxxx
Build and Release
MontaVista Software

Hi,
You should check out the datetime module. And convert dates to an
ordinal number.
today = datetime.date.today().toordinal()
age = today - datetime.date(year, month, day).toordinal()
Jim

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