Скрипт удаления старых файлов на Python

[fireflyzwish]

#! /usr/bin/env python
from operator import itemgetter, attrgetter
import glob, os, sys
def sort_files_by_last_modified(files):
   """ Given a list of files, return them sorted by the last
modified times. """
   fileData = {}
   for fname in files:
       fileData[fname] = os.stat(fname).st_mtime
   fileData = sorted(fileData.items(), key = itemgetter(1))
   return fileData
def delete_oldest_files(sorted_files, keep = 3):
   """ Given a list of files sorted by last modified time and a number to
keep, delete the oldest ones. """
   delete = len(sorted_files) - keep
   for x in range(0, delete):
       print "Deleting: " + sorted_files[x][0]
       os.remove(sorted_files[x][0])
def print_usage():
   """ Print the usage message for the script. """
   print """Deletes files other than the most recent.
Usage:
delete_files '/path/to/files/pre_*.ext'
e.g. delete_files '/home/boggins/pictures/*.jpg' 5
delete_files -h prints this message.
"""
if len(sys.argv) < 2 or sys.argv[1] == '-h':
   print_usage()
   sys.exit(1)
keep = 3
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
   keep = int(sys.argv[2])
# Find all files matching the path.
file_paths = glob.glob(sys.argv[1])
# Sort the files according to the last modification time.
sorted_files = sort_files_by_last_modified(file_paths)
delete_oldest_files(sorted_files, keep)

https://github.com/grahamlyons/delete-old-files/blob/master/delete_files