Script that produces all the names of the files and time they were added in a Dropbox folder

Question

I am trying to create a script that shows the name of the images in a dropbox directory and the time they were added to the folder. To do that I have created gama[entry] that has all the names of the images in that directory. My problem is I don't know how to add those names in the directory in order to produce the metadata. The script below can't work for that reason. How can I add it?

import dropbox


dbx = dropbox.Dropbox('ACCESS_TOKEN')

gama={}

dbx.users_get_current_account()
for entry in dbx.files_list_folder('/photos').entries:

   gama[entry]= entry.name
   print('gama=', gama[entry])
   print(entry.name)


   x= dbx.files_get_metadata('/photos/gama[entry]').server_modified
   print(x)

Answer 1

In this line, you're putting the actual string "gama[entry]" into the path, instead of the value of the variable with that name:

   x= dbx.files_get_metadata('/photos/gama[entry]').server_modified

You probably meant to do something like this instead:

   x= dbx.files_get_metadata('/photos/%s' % gama[entry]).server_modified

Or, more directly, without the gama variable, that's equivalent to:

   x= dbx.files_get_metadata('/photos/%s' % entry.name).server_modified

Note that you actually don't need the files_get_metadata call anyway though. The files_list_folder method gives you the same metadata to begin with, so you can just do:

   x= entry.server_modified