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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2003-10-27 20:00:36 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2003-10-27 20:00:36 (GMT) |
| commit | 8476c4df925238b5b82a68a97445877c8260e364 (patch) | |
| tree | a45c9b606d52ba9b8230189036d1512aa3f6f6e5 /Doc/lib | |
| parent | 0f10343410a300a84c93dce9280de8c8d8380481 (diff) | |
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SF bug #827902: ctime is not creation time
Document the correct definition of os.path.getctime()
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex index 7052714..b3973e3 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex @@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ not exist or is inaccessible. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getctime}{path} -Return the time of creation of \var{path}. The return +Return the time of most recent content modification or metadata change +for \var{path}. The return value is a number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the \refmodule{time} module). Raise \exception{os.error} if the file does not exist or is inaccessible. |