http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/age-lru_cache/2009-06-10T16:08:13-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2009-06-10T16:08:13-07:00Micah Elliotthttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2649403/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576804-find-the-oldest-or-yougest-of-a-list-of-files/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576804 by <a href="/recipes/users/2649403/">Micah Elliott</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/age/">age</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/find/">find</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/queue/">queue</a>). </p> <p>Sometimes you need to perform an operation on the oldest of a set of files. Using <em>get_oldest_file</em> you could implement an age-based priority queue that processes files from oldest to newest. The list of files you pass in may be from a <em>glob</em> of a single directory or some more elaborate search routine.</p>