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Thomas Reynaud
Thomas Reynaud

Reputation: 966

Iterating on files named with dates in chronological order

I have a directory containing files named like so:

2018-07-14
2018-07-12
2018-07-17

Right now I am iterating over all those files like so:

from pathlib import Path

def data_generator(my_dir):
    data_path = Path(my_dir)
    for path in data_path.iterdir():
        print(path)

Is there a simple to make sure I iterate on the files in order using their name as key, from oldest to most recent?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 443

Answers (1)

VietHTran
VietHTran

Reputation: 2318

You can enclose data_path.iterdir() with a sorted() function.

from pathlib import Path

def data_generator(my_dir):
    data_path = Path(my_dir)
    for path in sorted(data_path.iterdir()):
        print(path)

Upvotes: 3

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