On Feb 19, 10:06 am, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Brandon wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > Does copying or moving a file affect the return value of > > os.path.getmtime(path)? > > The modification time of a copied file should be the same as the > original. > > The creation time of a copied file will be the time at which it was > copied, so that can result in the paradoxical state of a file having > been modified _before_ it was created! :-)
ctime does not stand for creation time. I went through this a couple of months ago. It's updated whenever the inode is updated, so changing permissions, among other things will update it. It blew me away when I finally found this out. ~Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
