Filer and sort files by modification time in a directory

[Pedroski55]

Maybe this will help with the understanding part?

from pathlib import Path
import os

mydir = Path('/home/pedro/tmp/')
# get all files
filelist = [filename for filename in mydir.iterdir() if filename.is_file()]
# copy filelist
old_list = filelist.copy()
# sort filelist according to os.path.getmtime
filelist.sort(key=os.path.getmtime, reverse=True)
# compare the 2 lists
for f in range(len(filelist)):
    print(filelist[f])
    print(old_list[f])

To get the actual date of modification:

from datetime import datetime

def modification_date(filename):
    secs = os.path.getmtime(filename) # like: 1634870901.972196
    dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(secs)
    date = dt.strftime("%A %B %Y %H:%M:%S.%f")
    print(f'file is: {f}')
    print(f'last modified time in epoch seconds: {secs}')
    print(f'date of last modification was: {date}\n')

mydir = Path('/home/pedro/tmp/')
file_gen = (filename for filename in mydir.iterdir() if filename.is_file())
for f in file_gen:
    modification_date(f)