Getting last modified for every file in a directory

Question

I'm trying to get data for every file in a specific directory. Right now I'm just trying to get last-modified date. It seems like I need to convert this WindowsPath to a string, but I couldn't find any function that would do that.

import os
import time
from pathlib import Path

startDir = os.getcwd()

pt = r"\\folder1\folder2"

asm_pths = [pth for pth in Path(pt).iterdir()
            if pth.suffix == '.xml']


for file in asm_pths:
    (mode, ino, dev, nlink, uid, gid, size, atime, mtime, ctime) = os.stat(file)
    print("last modified: %s" % time.ctime(mtime))

Console:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\daniel.bak\My Documents\LiClipse Workspace\Crystal Report Batch Analyzer\Analyzer\analyzer.py", line 34, in <module>
    (mode, ino, dev, nlink, uid, gid, size, atime, mtime, ctime) = os.stat(file)
TypeError: argument should be string, bytes or integer, not WindowsPath

Answer 1

You may also use lstat().st_mtime for a WindowsPath (pathlib.Path) object.

Example:

from pathlib import Path

file = Path(r'C:\Users\<user>\Desktop\file.txt')
file.lstat().st_mtime

Output: 1496134873.8279443

import datetime
datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(file.lstat().st_mtime)

Output: datetime.datetime(2017, 5, 30, 12, 1, 13, 827944)