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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:04:03 -0700
From: Gary Herron <gherron@digipen.edu>
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On 10/29/2012 04:13 PM, noydb wrote:
> All,
>
> I need help with a date and time comparison.
>
> Say a user enters a date-n-time and a file on disk.  I want to compare the date and time of the file to the entered date-n-time; if the file is newer than the entered date-n-time, add the file to a list to process.
>
> How best to do?  I have looked at the datetime module, tried a few things, no luck.
>
> Is os.stat a part of it?  Tried, not sure of the output, the st_mtime/st_ctime doesnt jive with the file's correct date and time.  ??
>
> Any help would be appreciated!

Use the datetime module (distributed with Python) to compare date/times.

You can turn a filesystem time into a datetime with something like the 
following:
                 import datetime, os, stat
                 mtime = os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MTIME]   // the 
files modification time
                 dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime)


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