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

For multiple files, if anyone came here for that:

import glob, os

files = glob.glob("/target/directory/path/*/*.mp4")
files.sort(key=os.path.getmtime)

for file in files:
   print(file)

This will print all files in any folder within /path/ that have the .mp4 extension, with the most recently modified file paths at the bottom.