Just sort them and then select the bottom one from a list by using a negative indices. I.e.:
list[-1] Would return the bottom result out of a list On Apr 3, 2:21 pm, "gtb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish to copy the highest version number of a file from directory \ > \ > \fileserver\D:\scripts to C:\scripts where the file names are of the > form > > filename_MM.NN.SS.zip, where MM, NN, and SS can be one to three > digits. > > Example directory: > other.zip > dx_ver_1.1.63.zip > dx_ver_1.2.01.zip > dx_ver_1.12.7.zip > temp.txt > > Does python have string matching routines that would find the bottom > listed zip file and/or file copying routines? > > A little pointer or two would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > jh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
