Comparing file last access date

[kaklis]

Hi to all,
what i want is to search a folder, and if the last access date of the
files in that folder is greater than, lets say 7 days, those files
deleted. (Somekind of a file cleaner script)
I had problems with converting

now = today = datetime.date.today()
and
stats = os.stat(file)
lastAccessDate = time.localtime(stats[7])

into matching formats so that
if (now - lastAccessDate) > 7:
delete the file

what i do wrong
Thanks in advance
Antonis

 

[MRAB]

Hi to all,
what i want is to search a folder, and if the last access date of the
files in that folder is greater than, lets say 7 days, those files
deleted. (Somekind of a file cleaner script)
I had problems with converting

now = today = datetime.date.today()
and
stats = os.stat(file)
lastAccessDate = time.localtime(stats[7])

into matching formats so that
if (now - lastAccessDate) > 7:
delete the file

what i do wrong
Thanks in advance
Antonis

I would use:

seven_days = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 # 7 days in seconds

now = time.time() # in seconds since Epoch

...

last_access = os.path.getatime(path) # in seconds since Epoch
if now - last_access > seven_days:
os.remove(path)