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Subject: Re: what is the difference between st_ctime and st_mtime one is the	time of last change and the other is the time of last modification,	but i can not understand what is the difference between 'change' and	'modification'.
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:48:23 -0600, Kristen J. Webb wrote:

> NOTE: I am a C programmer and new to python, so can anyone comment
> on what the st_ctime value is when os.stat() is called on Windows?

The documentation[1] says:

    st_ctime - platform dependent; time of most recent metadata change on
    Unix, or the time of creation on Windows) 

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/os#os.stat