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return ISO compliant timestamp from file modification time datetime
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date.md 
>>> import os
>>> import datetime
>>> file = "my_file.txt"
>>> os.stat(file).st_ctime
1483323862.8774118
>>> os.path.getmtime(file)
1483323862.873167
>>> os.path.getmtime(os.path.getmtime(file))
KeyboardInterrupt
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime(file))
datetime.datetime(2017, 1, 1, 21, 24, 22, 873167)
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime(file)).strftime("%Y")
'2017'
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime(file)).isoformat()
'2017-01-01T21:24:22.873167'
>>> quit()
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