Question

currently what I do is:

import os

dir = '/var/www/site1.com'
modTime = os.path.getmtime(dir)

But the modification time is not as recent as the modification time of the most recent file modified inside that folder. Is there a way to get the mtime of that directory/folder with respect to the files/folder inside it?

Answer 1

Not without looking at the mtime value for each and every file in that folder.

You can use max() on the getmtime value for each entry in the folder:

modTime = max([os.path.getmtime(os.path.join(dir, p)) for p in os.listdir(dir)])