Hi!

http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-os.path.html
says getctime() returns the creation time. But it
probably returns the ctime, which has nothing to do
with creation.

Bye,
Robert

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Why do you say ctime has nothing to do with creation? What 
else does ctime indicate?

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ctime is change time.  Read the manual (stat(2)):
time_t        st_atime;    /* time of last access */
time_t        st_mtime;    /* time of last modification */
time_t        st_ctime;    /* time of last change */

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ctime is the time of last modification of file status
information.
Means: gets updated on everything... (-:
There is no way on classic Linux-Filesystems to get the
creation time.

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On Windows 2000 os.path.ctime (-> ntpath.getctime -> 
ntpath.stat.st_ctime) returns creation time.

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Fixed.
See Doc/lib/libposixpath.tex 1.37 and 1.36.12.1.

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So what about the issue that ctime really does mean
"creation time" on Windows?

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Hmm, it looks like there is more that one answer.

From Linux man pages:  ctime is the "inode change time"

From MSDN specs:  ctime "Indicates the creation time for
this storage, stream, or byte array". 

We can either document both or just put that getctime
returns the operating system's ctime field for open storage,
a stream, or a byte-array.

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I suggest to document all of these: it returns the system's
ctime, which, on some systems (e.g. Unix) is change time,
and, on others (e.g. Windows), is creation time.

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Done.