python converting datetime to be used in os.utime

Question

I cannot set ctime/mtime on my file within python. First I get the orginal timestamp of the file through ftp

The only thing I want is to keep the original timestamp

Answer 1

From the os.utime() documentation:

Otherwise, times must be a 2-tuple of numbers, of the form (atime, mtime) which is used to set the access and modified times, respectively.

You are not giving it a tuple. In this case, just set both atime and mtime to the same value:

os.utime(fileName, (orgTime, orgTime))

fileName is a string, so fileName.close() won't work (you'll get an attribute error), just drop that line.

orgTime must be an integer; you are giving it a time tuple; convert it to a timestamp in seconds since the epoch with time.mktime():

settime = time.mktime(ftime.timetuple())