The last modified time is a basic attribution of a file, it is easy to get in python. In this tutorial, we will use an simple example to show python beginners how to do.
Preliminary
You should import python os package.
import os
Get the last modified time of a file in python
lastmodified= os.stat('demo.png').st_mtime
print(lastmodified)
Run this code, you will get the last modified time is:
1568554988.7396924
The result is a timestamp, which is not friendly. We can format it.
Format the last modified time of a file
We can use python datetime model to format a timestamp. Here is an example:
from datetime import datetime lastmodified = datetime.fromtimestamp(lastmodified) print(lastmodified)
The result will be:
2019-09-15 21:43:08.739692
However, it is not a standard time format, we can format it again.
lastmodified = lastmodified.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
print(lastmodified)
The last modified time will be:
2019-09-15 21:43:08