On Feb 4, 9:33 pm, Python_Junkie <software.buy.des...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to obtain the last accessed date. About 50% of the files' > attributes were updated such that the file was last accessed when this > script touches the file. > I was not opening the files > > Anyone have a thought of why this happened. > > Python 2.6 on windows xp
Read up on NTFS - but on some file systems - to check a file access time is, well umm, is accessing it. Also possible that listing a directory is considered an access. It's the least useful of all records - I've only ever possibly wanted modification or creation times. hth, Jon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
