# note: test.txt can also be a file path
import os.path, time
print("Last modified: %s" % time.ctime(os.path.getmtime("test.txt")))
print("Created: %s" % time.ctime(os.path.getctime("test.txt")))import os, time
# Get file's Last modification time stamp only in terms of seconds since epoch
modTimesinceEpoc = os.path.getmtime(filePath)
# Convert seconds since epoch to readable timestamp
modificationTime = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime(modTimesinceEpoc))
print("Last Modified Time : ", modificationTime )import os
import platform
def creation_date(path_to_file):
"""
Try to get the date that a file was created, falling back to when it was
last modified if that isn't possible.
See http://stackoverflow.com/a/39501288/1709587 for explanation.
"""
if platform.system() == 'Windows':
return os.path.getctime(path_to_file)
else:
stat = os.stat(path_to_file)
try:
return stat.st_birthtime
except AttributeError:
# We're probably on Linux. No easy way to get creation dates here,
# so we'll settle for when its content was last modified.
return stat.st_mtimeimport os
time = os.path.getmtime("file.txt")
print(time) # 1600113737.82