os.stat can be used to return the stats of a file.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
print(os.stat("/path/to/example.txt"))

Something like this should be returned.

os.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=27901707, st_dev=64773, st_nlink=1, st_uid=65234, st_gid=100, st_size=0, st_atime=1701837284, st_mtime=1701837284, st_ctime=1701837284)

This is similar to the Linux stat command. 

~]# stat /tmp/foo.txt
  File: /tmp/foo.txt
  Size: 7940168         Blocks: 15520      IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fd04h/64772d    Inode: 105729      Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: (  409/ john.doe)   Gid: ( 2001/admins)
Context: system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0
Access: 2020-03-31 22:44:47.895474745 -0500
Modify: 2020-03-31 22:43:17.434452999 -0500
Change: 2020-03-31 22:43:17.434452999 -0500
 Birth: -

And here is how you can print each value.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
stat = os.stat("/path/to/example.txt")

print(f"mode       = {stat.st_mode}")
print(f"inode      = {stat.st_ino}")
print(f"device ID  = {stat.st_dev}")
print(f"hard links = {stat.st_nlink}")
print(f"uid        = {stat.st_uid}")
print(f"gid        = {stat.st_gid}")
print(f"size       = {stat.st_size}")
print(f"atime      = {stat.st_atime}")
print(f"mtime      = {stat.st_mtime}")
print(f"ctime      = {stat.st_ctime}")

Or like this.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
print(f"{os.stat("/path/to/example.txt").st_ctime}")

Which should return something like this.

mode       = 33188
inode      = 8419830
device ID  = 64768
hard links = 1
uid        = 65234
gid        = 100
size       = 6
atime      = 1724918963.7354586
mtime      = 1724918963.7054596
ctime      = 1724918963.727459

Notice that atime, mtime and ctime are epoch. Here is how you can convert atime, mtime and ctime to a human readable date and time.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
from datetime import datetime

stat = os.stat("/tmp/foo.txt")

atime = datetime.fromtimestamp(stat.st_atime)
ctime = datetime.fromtimestamp(stat.st_ctime)
mtime = datetime.fromtimestamp(stat.st_mtime)

print(f"atime = {atime}")
print(f"ctime = {ctime}")
print(f"mtime = {mtime}")

Which should return something like this.

atime = 2024-08-29 03:09:23.735459
ctime = 2024-08-29 03:09:23.727459
mtime = 2024-08-29 03:09:23.705460

strftime can be used if you want to adjust the format of the datetime object, often to drop the trailing seconds.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
from datetime import datetime

stat = os.stat("/tmp/foo.txt")

atime = datetime.fromtimestamp(stat.st_atime).strftime("%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")
ctime = datetime.fromtimestamp(stat.st_ctime).strftime("%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")
mtime = datetime.fromtimestamp(stat.st_mtime).strftime("%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")

print(f"atime = {atime}")
print(f"ctime = {ctime}")
print(f"mtime = {mtime}")

Something like this should be returned. Now datetime_object no longer has the trailing seconds.

atime = 2024-08-29 03:09:23
ctime = 2024-08-29 03:09:23
mtime = 2024-08-29 03:09:23

To get the stats of a file on a remote system, you can use paramiko sftp.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import paramiko

host     = "server1.example.com"
port     = 22
username = "john.doe"
password = "itsasecret"

transport = paramiko.Transport((host,port))
transport.connect(None,username,password)

sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(transport)

stat = sftp.stat("/tmp/bar.txt")

print(f"info.st_atime = {info.st_atime}")
print(f"info.st_mtime = {info.st_mtime}")

if sftp:
  sftp.close()
if transport:
  transport.close()