read dir contents and print them

[nix4me]

what actually are you trying to do? the file dates you mentioned, do you want to find last modified date? creation date? or accessed date? pls check out the os module i mentioned. you should be able to get the timestamp of the files in seconds. then you can store them in lists and use the sorted() method or sort() to sort the list...

print sorted([ (os.path.getmtime(files),files) for files in os.listdir(os.getcwd()) ])

Im trying to get the script to get the dir listing, evaluate all of the folders in that dir and print only the dirs that are 1 week old or less, 1 per line.

So far, here is the code I am working with:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import dircache
a=dircache.listdir('/mnt/fileserver/uploads')
for s in a:
        print s

nix4me

[slavik]

in C (sorry, it's the only way I know how to do it), there is opendir() which opens the directory file and reads the entries, then there is stat() which actually reads the information about a file. you need the equivalent of stat

[ghostdog74]

Im trying to get the script to get the dir listing, evaluate all of the folders in that dir and print only the dirs that are 1 week old or less, 1 per line.

i have showed you a snippet of how it can be done.
use os.path.getmtime (or ctime, or atime depending on your requirements).
eg

>>> import time,os
>>> today=time.time()
>>> filetime = os.path.getmtime("file")
1179703606

you get seconds. 1 week is roughly equivalent to 24 * 60 * 60 * 7 =
604800 seconds, so you subtract today's time with 604800 and that is the time
one week ago.Store it in a variable then in your script you can check whether filetime is less than one week and
print it.

[slash2314]

import os
import time
for file in [file for file in os.listdir(os.curdir) if time.time()-os.path.getmtime(file) < 604800]:
	print file

[nix4me]

Perfect. Thanks so much, i was having trouble getting the date.date portion working. It's working great. I've managed to tweak it accordingly to work with the individual directories that i want.

Thanks again,
nix4me