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Last modified time of a file

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Write a Python program to get the last modified time of a file.

Output

True

Approach

os.path.getmtime.

Solution

Python

import osimport time open("timed.txt", "w").close()before = os.path.getmtime("timed.txt")time.sleep(0.05)with open("timed.txt", "a") as f:    f.write("more")print(os.path.getmtime("timed.txt") >= before)

Output

True

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Writing to the file updates its modified time.

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