python get date file last modified

1# note: test.txt can also be a file path
2import os.path, time
3print("Last modified: %s" % time.ctime(os.path.getmtime("test.txt")))
4print("Created: %s" % time.ctime(os.path.getctime("test.txt")))

1import os, time
2# Get file's Last modification time stamp only in terms of seconds since epoch 
3modTimesinceEpoc = os.path.getmtime(filePath)
4# Convert seconds since epoch to readable timestamp
5modificationTime = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime(modTimesinceEpoc))
6print("Last Modified Time : ", modificationTime )

1import os
2import platform
3
4def creation_date(path_to_file):
5    """
6    Try to get the date that a file was created, falling back to when it was
7    last modified if that isn't possible.
8    See http://stackoverflow.com/a/39501288/1709587 for explanation.
9    """
10    if platform.system() == 'Windows':
11        return os.path.getctime(path_to_file)
12    else:
13        stat = os.stat(path_to_file)
14        try:
15            return stat.st_birthtime
16        except AttributeError:
17            # We're probably on Linux. No easy way to get creation dates here,
18            # so we'll settle for when its content was last modified.
19            return stat.st_mtime

1import os
2time = os.path.getmtime("file.txt")
3
4print(time) # 1600113737.82