Patch #658927: Add getctime to os.path.
Document that getatime and getmtime may return floats.
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index 4a92f18..8da9fda 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
__all__ = ["normcase","isabs","join","splitdrive","split","splitext",
"basename","dirname","commonprefix","getsize","getmtime",
- "getatime","islink","exists","isdir","isfile","ismount",
+ "getatime","getctime","islink","exists","isdir","isfile","ismount",
"walk","expanduser","expandvars","normpath","abspath",
"samefile","sameopenfile","samestat","supports_unicode_filenames"]
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@
"""Return the last access time of a file, reported by os.stat()."""
return os.stat(filename).st_atime
+def getctime(filename):
+ """Return the creation time of a file, reported by os.stat()."""
+ return os.stat(filename).st_ctime
# Is a path a symbolic link?
# This will always return false on systems where os.lstat doesn't exist.