["python","python-3.x","datetime","stat","pathlib"]
From stat().st_mtime to datetime?

What is the most idiomatic/efficient way to convert from a modification time retrieved from stat() call to a datetime object? I came up with the following (python3): from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone from pathlib import Path path = Path('foo') path.touch() statResult = path.stat() epoch = datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc) modified = epoch + timedelta(seconds=statResult.st_mtime) print('modified', modified) Seems round a bout, and a bit surprising that I have to hard code the Unix epoch in there. Is there a more direct way?
You can use datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp, i.e. from datetime import datetime, timezone ... stat_result = path.stat() modified = datetime.fromtimestamp(stat_result.st_mtime, tz=timezone.utc) print('modified', modified)