Finding most recently edited file in python

Question

I have a set of folders, and I want to be able to run a function that will find the most recently edited file and tell me the name of the file and the folder it is in.

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Answer 1

• use os.walk to list files
• use os.stat to get file modified timestamp (st_mtime)
• put both timestamps and filenames in a list and sort it by timestamp, largest timestamp is most recently edited file.