mx Oddity in FC3/RedHat ES

[Steve Holden]

Eric Azarcon wrote:

[...]
> 
> 
> My needs are pretty simple. Maybe you can point me in the right
> direction. I need to compare the creation time of a file with a date,
> and determine if I need to delete it. I know how to use stat to get the
> file creation time. I can get the current time. If I subtract the file
> ctime from the current time, how do i turn that delta into days?
> 

sholden at dellboy ~
$ python
Python 2.4 (#1, Dec  4 2004, 20:10:33)
[GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> from stat import ST_CTIME
  >>> from os import stat
  >>> s = stat("xmlpractical.txt")
  >>> s
(33279, 1407374883881497L, 1410850211L, 1, 544, 513,
	5859L, 1103556876, 1102382453, 1102292631)
  >>> ctime = s[ST_CTIME]
  >>> ctime
1102292631
  >>> import time
  >>> print "File was created", (time.time() - ctime)/(3600*24), "days ago"
File was created 14.6398609114 days ago

Does this do it?

regards
  Steve
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