date and time comparison how to

[Prasad, Ramit]

Gary Herron wrote:
> On 10/29/2012 04:13 PM, noydb wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I need help with a date and time comparison.
> >
> > Say a user enters a date-n-time and a file on disk.  I want to compare the date and time of the file to the
> entered date-n-time; if the file is newer than the entered date-n-time, add the file to a list to process.
> >
> > How best to do?  I have looked at the datetime module, tried a few things, no luck.
> >
> > Is os.stat a part of it?  Tried, not sure of the output, the st_mtime/st_ctime doesnt jive with the file's
> correct date and time.  ??
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> Use the datetime module (distributed with Python) to compare date/times.
> 
> You can turn a filesystem time into a datetime with something like the
> following:
>                  import datetime, os, stat
>                  mtime = os.lstat(filename)[stat.ST_MTIME]   // the
> files modification time
>                  dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime)
> 

You could also write that as:

datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp( os.path.getmtime( path ) )


Ramit P


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