get the latest file in a directory

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> I was wondering what is a quick way to find the latest(last modified
> date) file from a directory.

 >>> l = [(os.path.getmtime(x), x) for x in os.listdir(".")]
 >>> l.sort()
 >>> l[-1]
 (1067457449, '.svn')

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