Get age of a file/dir

[Jim]

Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
> I've been looking around the OS module and I haven't found anything
> useful yet.  Does anyone know how to get the age of a file or directory
> in days?  I'm using unix and don't seem to find anything that will help
> me.  The only function that comes close so far is
>
> os.path.getctime(path)
>
>
> However this only gets creation time on Windows, on Unix it gets the the
> time of the last change.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -carl
>
> --
>
> Carl J. Van Arsdall
> cvanarsdall at mvista.com
> Build and Release
> MontaVista Software

Hi,
You should check out the datetime module.  And convert dates to an
ordinal number.
     today = datetime.date.today().toordinal()
     age = today - datetime.date(year, month, day).toordinal()
Jim