With Carbon MacPython it is trivial to get to the file creation date; it is one of the fields returned by os.stat. With Framework MacPython this is no longer the case.

I am sure that the interface to the MacOS APIs allow one to do this. I played around some and could see how I could probably get the info, but in what format I had no idea and it was fairly complicated.

If you are willing, it'd be nice to have easier access to this info (and perhaps it exists and I've missed it). I can imagine two possible solutions:
- expand os.stat so the return object includes the extra attribute; this would be convenient, but would make the mac version nonstandard. Of course the windows version could also include this info, leaving unix the "odd man out".
- add a convenience method or function to some existing mac library

Of course it's an interesting question how many users actually need this info. I ended up using it for processing some measurement results (the language used to write the data files was too crude to include a date in the files). Still...it's clear folks to have use for file info, and it's nice if it's readily available. Thanks for your consideration.

-- Russell

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macfs.FSSpec(filename).GetDates() returns 3 time value: creation, 
modification and backup.

macfs is listed as deprecated, but that won't happen until there are easy 
interfaces to some of the things that are still missing from Carbon.File 
(such as getting at the creation date:-)