A Small Python Module: Get latest directory

• import os
• import time
• import operator
• def latestDir(path):
•     alist={}
•     now = time.time()
•     directory=os.path.join(path,"")
•     os.chdir(directory)
•     for file in os.listdir("."):
•         if os.path.isdir(file):
•             timestamp = os.path.getmtime( file )
•             # get timestamp and directory name and store to dictionary
•             alist[os.path.join(os.getcwd(),file)]=timestamp
•     # sort the timestamp
•     for i in sorted(alist.iteritems(), key=operator.itemgetter(1)):
•         latest="%s" % ( i[0])
•     print "newest directory is ", latest
•     return latest

Example USE:

scanPath = 'D:/dushyantka'

latestDir (scanPath)

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