On Dec 11, 11:02 am, Gregory Plantaine <gamersu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 5, 3:14 pm, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 6, 9:41 am, GregoryPlantaine<gamersu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > That worked perfectly! > > > > Thanks Tim! > > > > Since we can print the files, does that mean the list of files is in a > > > tuple, or something? Would there be a way to further split up the > > > file names? > > > > For example, now that the files are processed into the list, we want > > > to look through that list to find different filetypes. > > > > files > > > > C:\Folder\File_200812051439.111 > > > C:\Folder\File_200812051539.222 > > > *DANGER* It looks like you are interested in the timestamps that are > > embedded in the names of the files. Tim's code assumes [reasonably > > given that your problem description was ambiguous and had no examples > > of good and bad results] that you are interested in the last > > modification time of the file. You may say "same thing". Yes, same > > thing, until somebody sucks a file into a text editor, messes with it, > > and saves it again. No, Murphy's Law has not been repealed. > > > > Can we split up .111 files? > > > > Actually, where would I look something like this up? > > > In the Library Reference Manual ... there are all sorts of goodies in > > the os and os.path modules e.g. like those used by Tim; make sure you > > read the docs on the methods Tim used so that you understand what's > > happening. > > > HTH, > > John > > Thanks for the advice John! > > I was going though the Manual, but I'm having some trouble figuring > out how to iterate through each line. > > So from the same example, we've already created a list called "lists". > Now how do I iterate through each line? > > For eachline in lists > Find all .111 files.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
Ok, I figured it out. Actually more simple than I thought: for eachfile in files: if eachfile.endswith(".111"): print eachfile Another somewhat related question, instead of defining the firstdate, how would we do this? firstdate = secondate - 7 days -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list