On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Deepak Rokade <smartp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using python 2.5 on sun solaris. > > I want to limit the number of files returned by os.listdir() to some number > (say 1000), how can I do it ? > > Also I wan to list the files only if they are older than some x days, how > can I do it?
You can filter the returned list of files by checking the results of os.stat() [http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.stat] on the files. The `stat` module [http://docs.python.org/library/stat.html] can help with the interpretation of the data returned from os.stat(). Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
