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Lance Oxley
Lance Oxley

Reputation: 161

get timestamp of all files listed within text file

Im trying to get the timestamps of all of the files within a text file.
Files listed in text file:

folder/file1
folder/file2

System should output timestamp of:

folder/file1 timestamp-of-file
folder/file2 timestamp-of-file

Here is my code:

import os
f = open('config.dat','r')
list_contents = f.read().split('\n')
timestamp=os.path.getmtime(list_contents)
for a in timestamp:
    print(timestamp)
    f.close()

Upvotes: 2

Views: 690

Answers (2)

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189347

Reading the entire file into memory is unnecessary and potentially wasteful.

with open(config.dat) as inputfile:
    for line in inputfile:
         filename = line.rstrip('\n')
         print(filename, os.path.getmtime(filename))

The getmtime() return value is a Unix timestamp; you might want to pass it to time.strftime('%c', time.localtime(os.path.getmtime(filename)) for human-readable output.

Upvotes: 0

piripiri
piripiri

Reputation: 2005

Try this:

import os
f = open('config.dat','r')
list_contents = f.read().split('\n')
f.close()
for a in list_contents:
    print(a, os.path.getmtime(a))

os.path.getmtime(path) returns the timestamp of the file to be found under path, so you have to pass each of the entries of list_contents separately to this function.

Upvotes: 1

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