Chronological Processing of Files

[Paul]

untested, ugly, but something like this would sort all the files in the
directory on os.path.getctime (not using os.walk() though). I'm sure
there is probably better ways to do it :)

filelist = []

def walkdir(currdir):
    for files in os.listdir(currdir):
        path = os.path.join(currdir, files)
        if not os.path.isdir(path):
            filelist.append([os.path.getctime(path), path])
        else:
            walkdir(path)

walkdir(r'c:\somedirectory')

filelist.sort()

for item in filelist:
    dosomething(item[1])

dosomething is whatever function to process the files