Python – Compare modification dates between files and find time difference

file_age.py

#!/usr/bin/python
#The script searches in a specific location for files and it gets in POSIX the time of modification of all files.
#It also creates a temp file (and write text in it)  within the same directory (which gets deleted once the script exits)
#This temp file is used to get today's modification date. Then all POSIX dates are converted into human readable format
#and a comparison is done between the temp file and the files we are examining. If the files we are examining are
#three months or older, then .... you can enter what ever custom action you want.
 
import os.path
import tempfile
import datetime
import dateutil.relativedelta
import dateutil
 
#Path of where we are looking for the files
drc = '/root/Music'
 
#We create a temp file so we can get today's date. File is deleted after script is done executing
tempF = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=drc)#, delete=False)
tempF.write('something')#We put in some text in so we are sure to get a time modified.
fileT =  os.stat(tempF.name)[8] #We are getting the mtime aka time of modification
fileT_human = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(fileT)#We are converting it to human readeable
 
for dirpath, dirname, filename in os.walk(drc):  #we are going huntinf for...
        for fname in filename:                   #...files
                path = os.path.join(dirpath, fname) #full path of files
                mtime = os.stat(path)[8] #We are getting time of modification of all the files
                mtime_human  = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtime) #We humanize the date
 
                #We are comparing each file with the fileT_human in order to get the difference in date when it comes to modification time
                diff = dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta (fileT_human, mtime_human)
 
                #Just a sample output. You can use years, months, days to do the comparison between files.
                #print "%d years, %d months, %d days, %d hours, %d minutes and %d seconds" % (diff.years, diff.months, diff.days, diff.hours, diff.minutes, diff.seconds)
                months = diff.months
                if  months > 3:
                        print "Deleting file ", path
                        #Put whatever action you want here.
                        os.remove(path) #it will delete files only
                else:
                        exit;