On Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:19:23 UTC+5:30, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Sangeet <mrsang...@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! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
