How to get and read the csv files in same order from a directory in python

Question

There is a directory record_output which contains some csv files always in an order like this:-

2014-07-18_01:00.csv
2014-07-18_01:15.csv
2014-07-18_01:30.csv
2014-07-18_01:45.csv

Here is my code snippet:-

def getFiles():
        os.chdir("record_output/")
        for files in glob.glob("*.csv"):
            print files

This gives me the output:-

2014-07-18_01:30.csv
2014-07-18_01:15.csv
2014-07-18_01:45.csv
2014-07-18_01:00.csv

Is there someway to sort and get them in exactly the same order as they are in the directory?

Answer 1

Use sorted() ?

def getFiles():
        os.chdir("record_output/")
        for files in sorted(glob.glob("*.csv")):
            print files

Will output:

2014-07-18_01:00.csv
2014-07-18_01:15.csv
2014-07-18_01:30.csv
2014-07-18_01:45.csv