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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
