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To get the latest version of a file within a directory.
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get_latest_file.py
import glob
import os
list_of_files = glob.glob('/path/to/folder/filename_*.csv')
latest_file = max(list_of_files, key=os.path.getmtime)
print latest_file
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nchelaru commented Jul 9, 2020

Modified from StackOverflow answer.

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