Thomas> I've used glob.glob to create a list of all files whose name Thomas> matches a substring, but I don't see how I can use it to Thomas> identify files by their creation date.
Sumthin' like: files = [f for f in glob.glob(globpat) if os.path.getctime(f) > timethreshold] Define globpat and timethreshold accordingly. You sure you don't mean modification time? If so, change getctime to getmtime. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list