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[Peter Otten]

loial wrote:

> I have a requirement to test the creation time of a file with the
> current time and raise a message if the file is  more than 15 minutes
> old.
> 
> Platform is Unix.
> 
> I have looked at using os.path.getctime for the file creation time and

ctime is not actually the creation time:
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/ctime_atime_mtime.html

> time.time() for the current time, but is this the best approach?

What kind of improvement do you have in mind?