CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Reputation: 119

function that completes operations on files after a certain period of time

I'm a little stuck with a function I'm writing. Let's say we have a dictionary and a list as below:

dict = {".txt": 10, ".docx": 100"}
files = ["file1.txt", "file2.txt", "file3.docx"]

Let's also say that each file in the list has a certain age, file1_age= 9, file2_age = 13, file3_age = 87. i.e. they were created 9, 13, and 87 minutes ago respectively.

I'm trying to connect the files in the list with their respective file format in the dictionary. I then want to say if age of file > number in dictionary: do this It's essentially saying, leave the files as they are until they are a certain age and then do this thing with the files. Some pseudo code below.

for file in files:
    if file.endswith(dict.keys()):
        if file_age > dic.values():
            do this

Any help on how to do this would be much appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 35

Answers (1)

Kavan Doctor
Kavan Doctor

Reputation: 187

You can do

for file in files:
    ending = "." + file.split(".")[-1]
    if ending in dict:
        if file_age > dict[ending]:
            #do this

Upvotes: 1

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