Consider the following piece of code:
files = sorted(os.listdir('dumps'), key=os.path.getctime)
The objective is to sort the listed files based on the creation time. However since the the os.listdir gives only the filename and not the absolute path the key ie, the os.path.getctime throws an exception saying
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'very_important_file.txt'
Is there a workaround to this situation or do I need to write my own sort function?
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Answer
files = sorted(os.listdir('dumps'), key=lambda fn:os.path.getctime(os.path.join('dumps', fn)))