Retrieving modification time of file class was declared in

[Orlando Vazquez]

Actually, what my comment wass supposed to say was "Checking the 
modification time of the file the Thread class was defined in", but I'm 
sure you understood what I meant. ;-)

Orlando Vazquez wrote:
> nathan_kent_bullock at yahoo.ca wrote:
> 
>> Assume I am using a class Foo. I want to find out the modification time
>> of the file that that class was defined in. How would I go about this?
>>
>> If I could find out the name of the file that Foo was defined in then
>> it is easy, I could use os.path.getmtime(), but I can't even figure
>> that out.
>>
>> I realize that this wouldn't be a completely accurate way to tell the
>> last time this class was modified because it could inherit info from
>> other classes, or use functions from other modules that have been
>> modified, etc.
>>
>> Nathan Bullock
>>
> 
> Off the top of my head, without having done too much experimentation 
> here's what you could try. Caveat: there may be a more robust/cleaner 
> way of doing this:
> 
> # Checking the modificationtime of the Thread class in the threading
> # module
> 
>  >>> import threading
>  >>> import time
>  >>>
>  >>> module_filename = vars()[threading.Thread.__module__].__file__
>  >>>
>  >>> mtime = os.path.getmtime(module_filename)
>  >>>
>  >>> print time.ctime(mtime)
> Sun Nov 14 20:29:42 2004
> 
> 
> I hope that answer's your question :-)
>