ass TypeError (Exception): pass if __name__ == '__main__': if (len(os.sys.argv) < 1): raise TypeError() else: print "os.sys.argv[0]: %s" % os.sys.argv[0] # os.sys.argv[0] is the current file, in this case, file_ctime.py f = os.sys.argv[0] mtime = time.ctime(os.path.getmtime(f)) ctime = time.ctime(os.path.getctime(f)) print "Last modified : %s, last created time: %s" % (mtime, ctime)