How to get file creation & modification date/times in Python?

Question

I have a script that needs to do some stuff based on file creation & modification dates but has to run on Linux & Windows.

Answer 1

os.stat https://docs.python.org/2/library/stat.html#module-stat

edit: In newer code you should probably use os.path.getmtime() (thanks Christian Oudard)
but note that it returns a floating point value of time_t with fraction seconds (if your OS supports it)