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