Glob search files in date order?

Question

I have this line of code in my python script. It searches all the files in in a particular directory for * cycle *.log.

for searchedfile in glob.glob("*cycle*.log"): 

This works perfectly, however when I run my script to a network location it does not search them in order and instead searches randomly.

Is there a way to force the code to search by date order?

This question has been asked for php but I am not sure of the differences.

Thanks

Answer 1

To sort files by date:

import glob import os  files = glob.glob("*cycle*.log") files.sort(key=os.path.getmtime) print("\n".join(files)) 

See also Sorting HOW TO.

Answer 2

Essentially the same as @jfs but in one line using sorted

import os,glob searchedfiles = sorted(glob.glob("*cycle*.log"), key=os.path.getmtime)