Globbing files by their creation date

[tkpmep]

I'd like to create a list of all files in a directory that were created
after a certain date. How does one do this? I've used glob.glob to
create a list of all files whose name matches a substring, but I don't
see how I can use it to identify files by their creation date.

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Thomas Philips

[skip]

ThomasI've used glob.glob to create a list of all files whose name
Thomasmatches a substring, but I don't see how I can use it to
Thomasidentify files by their creation date.

Sumthin' like:

files = [f for f in glob.glob(globpat)
if os.path.getctime(f) timethreshold]

Define globpat and timethreshold accordingly. You sure you don't mean
modification time? If so, change getctime to getmtime.

Skip

[James Antill]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:44:29 -0600, skip wrote:

ThomasI've used glob.glob to create a list of all files whose name
Thomasmatches a substring, but I don't see how I can use it to
Thomasidentify files by their creation date.

Sumthin' like:

files = [f for f in glob.glob(globpat)
if os.path.getctime(f) timethreshold]

Define globpat and timethreshold accordingly. You sure you don't mean
modification time? If so, change getctime to getmtime.

help(os.path.getctime)

getctime(filename)
Return the metadata change time of a file, reported by os.stat().

Note that _change_ time != creation time. Also for all files you probably
want os.listdir() instead of glob.

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[tkpmep]

Thanks a mill - os.path.getctime(f) is what I needed. Unfortunately, my
attempts to turn the integer it returns into a date have failed.

>>os.path.getctime(fn) #fn was created today, 1/17/2007

1168955503

I tried to convert this to a date object by typing

>>>datetime.date.fromordinal(1168955503)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#9>", line 1, in -toplevel-
datetime.date.fromordinal(1168955503)
ValueError: year is out of range

How can I do the conversion? I'm trying to identify all files that were
created after YYYY/MM/DD.

For a quick sanity check, I ran

>>datetime.date.today().toordinal()

732693

which is orders of magnitude smaller than the number returned by
os.path.getctime(fn).

Thanks in advance for your help

Thomas Philips