Find the oldest and newest file in a directory and sort them.

time-files-modified.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os

path = 'data'
os.chdir(path)
files = sorted(os.listdir(os.getcwd()), key=os.path.getmtime)

oldest = files[0]
newest = files[-1]

print "Oldest:", oldest
print "Newest:", newest
print "All by modified oldest to newest:", files

Maybe a step to handle if there are no files in the path . Or if that path is incorrect. Otherwise this is exactly what i was looking for.

This worked for me. Thank you so much.

Thanks benhosmer. It helped.

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