On 2012-03-22, Tim Williams <tjand...@cox.net> wrote: > On Mar 22, 7:33?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. >> >> Thanks, >> Sangeet > > Check out os.stat()
I've been using os.path.getmtime, and converting that to a datetime object using datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp. Surprisingly, perhaps, this has been working. According to the docs, to avoid making any assumptiong, I might need to do: tm = os.path.getmtime(apath) lt = time.localtime(tm) datetime.datetime(lt.tm_year, lt.tm_mon, lt.tm_mday) Here's where I'm confused about the functioning of my original plan. The docs say: os.path.getmtime [...] The return value is a number giving the number of seconds since the epoch (see the time module). [...] classmethod datetime.fromtimestamp Return the local date and time corresponding to the POSIX timestamp, such as returned by time.time(). [...] time.time Return the time as a floating point number expressed as seconds since the epoch, in UTC. [...] I'm not completely sure the return type of getmtime and the argument type of fromtimestamp are really the same or not. I guess I came to that conclusion some time in the past, and it does seem to work. It may be a simple case of just different aspects the exact same type being being highlighted in each definition. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
