Deleting files/folders older than one hour in python

Question

I want to delete the directories older than 1 hour in python. I would like to see the creation time of each folder and delete any folder older than 1 hour

Answer 1

I used this function to get the time difference between a directory and current time in minutes

def get_total_mins(dir):
    x = time.ctime(os.path.getmtime(dir))
    folder_time = x[11:19]
    fld_hrs = int(folder_time[0:2])
    fld_mins = int(folder_time[3:5])

    now = datetime.now()
    current_time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
    crnt_hrs = int(current_time[0:2])
    crnt_mins = int(current_time[3:5])

    total_mins = abs(crnt_mins - fld_mins) + (abs(crnt_hrs - fld_hrs)*60)
    return total_mins