Python get file date creation

import os
import platform

def creation_date(path_to_file):
    """
    Try to get the date that a file was created, falling back to when it was
    last modified if that isn't possible.
    See http://stackoverflow.com/a/39501288/1709587 for explanation.
    """
    if platform.system() == 'Windows':
        return os.path.getctime(path_to_file)
    else:
        stat = os.stat(path_to_file)
        try:
            return stat.st_birthtime
        except AttributeError:
            # We're probably on Linux. No easy way to get creation dates here,
            # so we'll settle for when its content was last modified.
            return stat.st_mtime

Source: stackoverflow.com

Similar codes

0 vote218 views1 answer
3d plot
Python
31 votes182 views6 answers
Try except python
Python
0 vote164 views1 answer
Networkx node attribute from a dataframe
Python
0 vote177 views1 answer
Jupyter notebook loading bar
Python
1 vote208 views2 answers
Zip django template
Python Django
0 vote138 views1 answer
How to create a python virtual environment in linux
Python
2 votes187 views1 answer
Python append to first index
Python
4 votes181 views5 answers
'datetime' has no attribute 'now'
Python
1 vote208 views1 answer
Django model query add annotation field to show duplicate count
Python
1 vote184 views1 answer
Droaw heat map in python for null values
Python