get the latest file in a directory

[Hank]

Hi,

I was wondering what is a quick way to find the latest(last modified
date) file from a directory.

Should I use win32file.GetFileTime and compare PyTime? I don't want to
create a PyHANDLE for every single file in the directory, not if
there's an easier way at least.

Thanks

 

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

I was wondering what is a quick way to find the latest(last modified

date) file from a directory.

>>> l = [(os.path.getmtime(x), x) for x in os.listdir(".")]
>>> l.sort()
>>> l[-1]

(1067457449, '.svn')

 

[Joe Francia]

Hi,

I was wondering what is a quick way to find the latest(last modified
date) file from a directory.

Should I use win32file.GetFileTime and compare PyTime? I don't want to
create a PyHANDLE for every single file in the directory, not if
there's an easier way at least.

Look at os.stat() and the stat module, along with os.listdir().

 

[Tim Golden]

Hi,

I was wondering what is a quick way to find the latest(last modified
date) file from a directory.

Should I use win32file.GetFileTime and compare PyTime? I don't want to
create a PyHANDLE for every single file in the directory, not if
there's an easier way at least.

Thanks

Given that you're talking about win32file etc. I assume you're on
Windows, so the following (slightly unorthodox) suggestion might help:

import os

files = os.popen (r"dir /od /b *.*").read ().splitlines ()
# dir /od /a-d /b # to avoid directories
files[-1]

TJG