How can I improve performance of finding all files in a folder created at a certain date?

Question

There are 10,000 files in a folder. Few files are created on 2018-06-01, few on 2018-06-09, like that.

I need to find all files which are created on 2018-06-09. But it is taking to much time (almost 2 hours) to read each file and get the file creation date and then get the files which are created on 2018-06-09.

for file in os.scandir(Path):
    if file.is_file():
        file_ctime = datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getctime(file)).strftime('%Y- %m- %d %H:%M:%S')
        if file_ctime[0:4] == '2018-06-09':
            # ...  

Answer 1

You could try using os.listdir(path) to get all the files and dirs from the given path.

Once you have all the files and directories you could use filter and a lambda function to create a new list of only the files with the desired timestamp.

You could then iterate through that list to do what work you need to on the correct files.