get file modification time in mm/dd/yyyy format?

[F. Petitjean]

Le 7 May 2005 08:23:48 -0700, beliavsky at aol.com a écrit :
> Using Python 2.4 on Windows, for me the command
> 
> print os.stat("temp.txt")[stat.ST_MTIME]
> 
> gives
> 
> 1115478343 ,
> 
> which is "seconds since the epoch". How can I get the modification time
> in a format such as
> 
> 05/07/2005  11:05 AM
> 
> as in Windows with the dir command? Ideal would be a tuple of 6 values,
> (year,month,day,hour,minute,second). Thanks.
> 
I type
import time
dir(time)
lot of stuff
help(time.localtime)
localtime([seconds]) ->
    (tm_year,tm_mon,tm_day,tm_hour,tm_min,tm_sec,tm_wday,tm_yday,tm_isdst)

Convert seconds since the Epoch to a time tuple expressing local time.
When 'seconds' is not passed in, convert the current time instead.

>>> time.localtime(1115478343)
(2005, 5, 7, 17, 5, 43, 5, 127, 1)
it seems to be  7 may 2005  17h 5 minutes 43 seconds

To have such a formatting you have to type help(time.strptime) which
sadly will say
See the library reference manual for formatting codes (same as strftime()).

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