The returned value is an epoch time, the number of seconds since January 0, 1970.
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def __getModTime ( self, fileName ):
'''Try to retrieve a file's modification timestamp.
[ fileName is a string ->
if fileName does not exist ->
raise OSError
if we can stat fileName ->
return that file's modification epoch time
else -> raise IOError ]
'''
return os.stat(fileName)[stat.ST_MTIME]