Old File Purge Suggestions?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Chris Liechti wrote:

> > I'm using sys.stdin.readlines(): getting the date passed in from
> > from "ls -l" (linux). Then compare dates using the mxDateTime
>
> i think os.stat gives you the same information as "ls -l" and you
> don't have to parse strings (use os.listdir to get the names and then
> stat on them)

os.path.getmtime is a bit easier to use, e.g:

import time, os

now = time.time()
max_age = 3 * 86400 # three days

for file in os.listdir(directory):
    fullname = os.path.join(directory, file)
    if now - os.path.getmtime(fullname) > max_age:
        print "remove", fullname
        # os.remove(fullname)

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