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Sangeet wrote:

> I've been trying to write a script that would access the last modified
> file in one of my directories. I'm using Win XP.

import os
import glob

path = r"c:\one\of\my directories\*"

youngest_file = max(glob.glob(path), key=os.path.getmtime)