Hello everyone, I have a repeatedly running process, which always creates a new logfile with an ending n+1. What I need is to find the last file, the one with highest number at the end. The problem is, that the max() method gives me a wrong answer. I tried to convert the items in my list into integers using int(), but that ends up with an error ValueError: invalid literal for int():
My code currently looks like this: def get_logfile(dir, file_name): new_file_name = file_name[:-3] + 'log' listing = glob.glob(dir + new_file_name + '*') numbers = [] for i in range(len(listing)): item = listing[i] numbers.append(item[len(dir) + len(new_file_name) + 1:]) return new_file_name + '.' + max(numbers) cheers Petr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list