[Tutor] globbing and sorting and dating, oh my! (fwd)

[Danny Yoo]

Hi everyone,


Followup on Kirk's question: looks like he solved it.  *grin*


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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:47:41 -0500
From: Kirk Bailey <idiot1 at netzero.net>
To: Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] globbing and sorting and dating, oh my!

I already solved it, and tripped across a function in time and another in
os which did the work nicely. The technique of ADD A WEEK TO IT AND TOSS
ANYTHING LARGER THAN 'NOW' IN THE BIT BUCKET did the trick. For an
examination of the resulting script, try this link out:

http://www.tinylist.org/whatsnew.txt

Once I figured out time.time, it was easy. woaking through a list of all
files in that dir (only pages for the wiki were there, simplifying my task
immensely, a bit of luck I had the forsight to invent for myself at the
beginning), I had the script:

1. read the age for each
2. toss out those too old
3. appending the acceptable ones to a new list
4. printing them in links to the reader program

Then it closes the page printing out the page footer. 2 do loops. 2 lists.