Thanks - turns out the real error was in the file dealing with it - all fixed now.
Thanks for the help. Kate -----Original Message----- From: Jim Abramson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:38 PM To: Kate Legere; Zope Subject: RE: [Zope] python question sort() on a sequence does not return anything. It operates on the [mutable] sequence in place. You probably want to push this bit into a python script where you have more elbow room, and do this: files.sort(etc,etc) return files[0] hth, Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Kate Legere > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:35 PM > To: Zope > Subject: [Zope] python question > > I may be asking this in the wrong place but I have a tal page > where I want to use python to display only the most recent > addition to a folder of files. > > > I can sort the folder and return all the files easily with: > return sequence.sort(files, (('bobobase_modification_time', 'cmp', > 'desc'),)) > > How do I return just the most recent one? (I tried sorting > and then using return max(files) but that doesn't give me all > the properties and I need them for display) > > Kate > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) > _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )