Checking a file modification date/time against one stored in memory?

Question

I'm looking for some help to do:

1) Get the modification date/time of a file
2) Compare against the same file after a sleep of 10 minuites and if it's not different to play a beep:

import winsound
winsound.Beep(2000,500)

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You will be able to use below function with some modification to fit your requirements:

def getnewestfile(NetworkPath):
    DestFolder = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(NetworkPath)
    filelist = os.listdir(os.getcwd())
    filelist = filter(lambda x: not os.path.isdir(x), filelist)
    newest = max(filelist, key=lambda x: os.stat(x).st_mtime)
    os.chdir(DestFolder)
    return newest

This function returns the newest file located at the network path as input.