[Tutor] Forcing file modified date to arbitrary future date?

Lloyd Kvam pythontutor at venix.com
Wed Oct 15 09:52:17 EDT 2003


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os.utime should do what you want.

R. Alan Monroe wrote:

> Subject says it all - I need a way to change the last modified date of
> a file to any arbitrary future date. I didn't see anything in os.path.
> It has a "getmtime" function, but not a matching "setmtime", that I
> could see. I don't mind using win32api if there's not a function in
> the standard libraries.
> 
> Alan
> 
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