Re: Find out last modtime of a file?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Kai> In addition to invoking Perl and the /usr/bin/stat (or /bin/stat?)
    Kai> program, which other ways can you think of to find the last modtime
    Kai> of a file?

    $ python -c 'import os ; print os.path.getmtime("/etc/passwd")'
    1073427074

:-)  Should work as above with versions of Python as far back as 1.5.2
(released in 1998 I think).

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