datetime - Windows file creation date/time using python

Question

I need to get a file creation date&time using python. I tried:

os.stat(r"path")[ST_CTIME]

But it is returning:

1263538277

This is not the creation date time. Is there a way to do it?

Answer 1

Why not?

>>> import time
>>> time.ctime(1263538277)
'Fri Jan 15 04:51:17 2010'

Looks like a valid creation time to me.