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.path.walk() to traverse the directory tree and os.stat().st_mtime to get the mtime of the files.

The function you pass to os.path.walk() (the visit parameter) just needs to keep track of the largest mtime it's seen and where it saw it.