On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:44:29 -0600, skip wrote:
> 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.
help(os.path.getctime)
getctime(filename)
Return the metadata change time of a file, reported by os.stat().
Note that _change_ time != creation time. Also for all files you probably
want os.listdir() instead of glob.
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