Question

I am trying to delete old folders and I am asking does anyone know how to set up a variable that allows me to check the variable ‘todaystr’ which is today’s date and minus 7 days of this string and store it another variable. I am wanting to automatically delete old files after a week. Below shows the variable ‘todaystr’ being set up.

todaystr = datetime.date.today().isoformat()  

I would like to create a variable ‘oldfile’ that stores the current date minus 7 days so I can delete the file with this date. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

import datetime
import os
import shutil

threshold = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(days=-7)
file_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime('/folder_name'))

if file_time < threshold:
    shutil.rmtree('/folder_name')