# Python program to explain os.path.getatime() method 
    
# importing os and time module 
import os
import time
  
# Path
path = '/home/User/Documents/file.txt'
  
# Get the time of last
# access of the specified
# path since the epoch
access_time = os.path.getatime(path)
print("Last access time since the epoch:", access_time)
  
# convert the time in
# seconds since epoch
# to local time
local_time = time.ctime(access_time)
print("Last access time(Local time):", local_time)

Last access time since the epoch: 1558447897.0442736
Last access time (Local time): Tue May 21 19:41:37 2019

# Python program to explain os.path.getatime() method 
    
# importing os, time and sys module 
import os
import sys
import time
  
# Path
path = '/home/User/Documents/file2.txt'
  
# Get the time of last
# access of the specified
# path since the epoch
try:
    access_time = os.path.getatime(path)
    print("Last access time since the epoch:", access_time)
  
except OSError:
    print("Path '%s' does not exists or is inaccessible" %path)
    sys.exit()
  
# convert the time in
# seconds since epoch
# to local time
local_time = time.ctime(access_time)
print("Last access time(Local time):", local_time)
  
  
# above code will print
# 'File does not exists or is inaccessible'
# if the specified path does not
# exists or is inaccessible
  

Path '/home/User/Documents/file2.txt' does not exists or is inaccessible