This is a challenge as well as a question:
I have a folder of data files. I want the following list of lists of information:
Filename: Created: Last modified:
Information =
[
[datafile1, Mon Mar 04 10:45:24 2013, Tue Mar 05 12:05:09 2013],
[datafile2, Mon Mar 04 11:23:02 2013, Tue Apr 09 10:57:55 2013],
[datafile2.1, Mon Mar 04 11:37:21 2013, Tue Apr 02 15:35:58 2013],
[datafile3, Mon Mar 04 15:36:13 2013, Thu Apr 18 15:03:25 2013],
[datafile4, Mon Mar 11 09:20:08 2013, Mon May 13 16:30:59 2013]
]
I can sort it myself after I have the Information. Can someone write the function:
def get_information(directory):
.
.
.
return Information
These posts are useful:
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However: I feel there must exist a better, more re-usable solution which works on windows, and linux.
I know for a fact that os.stat
functions well on both windows
and linux
.
Documentation here
However, to fit your functionality, you could do:
You can use st_atime
to access most recent access and st_ctime
for file creation time.
import os,time
def get_information(directory):
file_list = []
for i in os.listdir(directory):
a = os.stat(os.path.join(directory,i))
file_list.append([i,time.ctime(a.st_atime),time.ctime(a.st_ctime)]) #[file,most_recent_access,created]
return file_list
print get_information("/")
I'm on a mac
and I get this,
[['.dbfseventsd', 'Thu Apr 4 18:39:35 2013', 'Thu Apr 4 18:39:35 2013'], ['.DocumentRevisions-V100', 'Wed May 15 00:00:00 2013', 'Sat Apr 13 18:11:00 2013'],....]