How to copy file create/modify file to new file

Question

File create/modify time has important information. When converting a file into new file, such as video, how to preserve create/modify time in Python. Something like:

# pseudo code
old_time = original_video.gettime()

# new_video and original_video are totally different files.
new_video = create_and_convert(original_video)

# How to copy old file create/modify time to new file?
set_time(new_video, old_time)

I wish new_video has exact same create/modify time. How to do it?

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html#shutil.copystat — Robᵩ, Aug 23 '19 at 05:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '19 at 05:45

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Use time module for your usecase.

import time
old_time = time.ctime()

answered Aug 23 '19 at 05:45

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