这@Greg Hewgill是答案的更详细的版本。这是最符合问题要求的。它区分了创建日期和修改日期（至少在Windows上如此）。

#!/usr/bin/env python
from stat import S_ISREG, ST_CTIME, ST_MODE
import os, sys, time

# path to the directory (relative or absolute)
dirpath = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) == 2 else r'.'

# get all entries in the directory w/ stats
entries = (os.path.join(dirpath, fn) for fn in os.listdir(dirpath))
entries = ((os.stat(path), path) for path in entries)

# leave only regular files, insert creation date
entries = ((stat[ST_CTIME], path)
           for stat, path in entries if S_ISREG(stat[ST_MODE]))
#NOTE: on Windows `ST_CTIME` is a creation date 
#  but on Unix it could be something else
#NOTE: use `ST_MTIME` to sort by a modification date

for cdate, path in sorted(entries):
    print time.ctime(cdate), os.path.basename(path)

例：

$ python stat_creation_date.py
Thu Feb 11 13:31:07 2009 stat_creation_date.py

过去，我是通过Python脚本确定目录中最后更新的文件的方式：

import glob
import os

search_dir = "/mydir/"
# remove anything from the list that is not a file (directories, symlinks)
# thanks to J.F. Sebastion for pointing out that the requirement was a list 
# of files (presumably not including directories)  
files = list(filter(os.path.isfile, glob.glob(search_dir + "*")))
files.sort(key=lambda x: os.path.getmtime(x))

这应该可以根据文件mtime执行你想要的操作。

编辑：请注意，如果需要，还可以使用os.listdir（）代替glob.glob（）-我在原始代码中使用glob的原因是我想使用glob仅搜索具有特定集合的文件文件扩展名，glob（）更适合。要使用listdir，结果如下所示：

import os

search_dir = "/mydir/"
os.chdir(search_dir)
files = filter(os.path.isfile, os.listdir(search_dir))
files = [os.path.join(search_dir, f) for f in files] # add path to each file
files.sort(key=lambda x: os.path.getmtime(x))