How to see if file is older than 3 months in Python?

Question

I'm curious about manipulating time in Python. I can get the (last modified) age of a file using the os.path.getmtime() function as such:

import os.path, time    

os.path.getmtime(oldLoc)

I need to run some kind of test to see whether this time is within the last three months or not, but I'm thoroughly confused by all the available time options in Python.

Can anyone offer any insight? Kind Regards.

Answer 1

You can use a bit of datetime arthimetic here for the sake of clarity.

>>> import datetime
>>> today = datetime.datetime.today()
>>> modified_date = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime('yourfile'))
>>> duration = today - modified_date
>>> duration.days > 90 # approximation again. there is no direct support for months.
True