The code is not returning me the latest file

Question

Although I have files in the directory, the code is not returning anything, can anyone help me?

from pathlib import Path

date_creation = lambda f: f.stat().st_ctime

directory = Path('directory')
files = directory.glob('*.py')
sorted_files = sorted(files, key = date_creation, reverse = True)

for f in sorted_files:
    print(f)

Answer 1

Note that the argument that you pass to Path() is being interpreted as a relative path, rather than as an absolute path.

This means that, at the time of running this code, you will be looking for a sub-directory called 'directory', within whatever happens to be the current directory.

Based on this understanding, please pass the correct argument to Path(). That should get you the results.

For example, on my machine, the following code that uses an absolute path works fine:

from pathlib import Path

date_creation = lambda f: f.stat().st_ctime

directory = Path('F:/MyParentFolder/MySubFolder')
files = directory.glob('*.py')
sorted_files = sorted(files, key = date_creation, reverse = True)

for f in sorted_files:
    print(f)