On 15Oct2020 2239, Rob Cliffe via Python-Dev wrote:
TLDR: In os.scandir directory entries, atime is always a copy of mtime rather than the actual access time.
Correction - os.stat() updates the access time to _now_, while os.scandir() returns the last access time without updating it.
Eryk replied with a deeper explanation of the cause, but fundamentally this is what you are seeing.
Feel free to file a bug, but we'll likely only add a vague note to the docs about how Windows works here rather than changing anything. If anything, we should probably fix os.stat() to avoid updating the access time so that both functions behave the same, but that might be too complicated.
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