Am Dienstag, den 31.05.2005, 15:34 -0400 schrieb Kate Legere:
> 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)
Use:
return sequence.sort(files, (('bobobase_modification_time',
'cmp','desc'),))[:3]
[:3] is a slice operator which returns
item0...item2
since you sorted descenting by modification time, the
first 3 objects should be the most recent 3.
Regards
Tino
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