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| Date | Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:00:25 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:19:23 UTC+5:30, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Sangeet <mrsangeet@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am new to the python programming language. > > > > 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. > > > > I saw a similar topic, on the forum before, however the reply using (os.popen) didn't work out for me. I'm not sure whether it was due to syntax errors either. > > Recursively or non-recursively? > Live monitoring or just one-time? > What was the forum post in question? > > In the simple case, you just need to stitch together these functions: > http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.stat > (note the .st_mtime attribute of the result) > http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html#os.path.join > with one of these functions: > http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.listdir > http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.walk > > Cheers, > Chris Thanks Chris, this helped me a lot!
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Accessing the files by last modified time Sangeet <mrsangeet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-22 04:33 -0700
Re: Accessing the files by last modified time Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-03-22 04:49 -0700
Re: Accessing the files by last modified time Sangeet <mrsangeet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 06:00 -0700
Re: Accessing the files by last modified time Sangeet <mrsangeet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 06:00 -0700
Re: Accessing the files by last modified time Tim Williams <tjandacw@cox.net> - 2012-03-22 05:04 -0700
Re: Accessing the files by last modified time Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-03-22 13:06 +0000
Re: Accessing the files by last modified time Sangeet <mrsangeet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 05:59 -0700
Re: Accessing the files by last modified time Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-03-22 13:38 +0100
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