How to get a directory list sorted by date?
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Sun May 15 07:15:11 EDT 2016
On 2016-05-15 11:46, Peter Otten wrote:
> def sorted_dir(folder):
> def getmtime(name):
> path = os.path.join(folder, name)
> return os.path.getmtime(path)
>
> return sorted(os.listdir(folder), key=getmtime, reverse=True)
>
> The same idea will work with pathlib and os.scandir():
>
> def _getmtime(entry):
> return entry.stat().st_mtime
>
> def sd_sorted_dir(folder):
> return sorted(os.scandir(folder), key=_getmtime, reverse=True)
unless sorted() returns a lazy sorter, you lose most of the advantages
of scandir() being lazy since you have to read the entire directory
list into memory to sort it.
-tkc
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