How to get file creation & modification date/times in Python?

Question

I have a script that needs to do some stuff based on file creation & modification dates but has to run on Linux & Windows.

Answer 1

os.stat does include the creation time. There's just no definition of st_anything for the element of os.stat() that contains the time.

So try this:

os.stat('feedparser.py')[8]

Compare that with your create date on the file in ls -lah

They should be the same.