Sort files by date

[Scott David Daniels]

Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> fargo wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm looking for some way to sort files by date.
> 
> 
> you could do something like:
> 
> l = [(os.stat(i).st_mtime, i) for i in glob.glob('*')]
> l.sort()
> files = [i[1] for i in l]
> 
> Jeremy
> 
If you have 2.4 or later:

     def mtime(filename):
         return os.stat(filename).st_mtime

     lst = sorted(glob.glob('*'), key=mtime)



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