Question

Assuming the file exists (using os.path.exists(filename) to first make sure that it does), how do I display the time a file was last modified? This is on Linux if that makes any difference.

Answer 1

os.stat()

import os filename = '/etc/fstab' statbuf = os.stat(filename) print('Modification time: {}'.format(statbuf.st_mtime)) 

Linux does not record the creation time of a file (for most fileystems).