Simple last created file extraction, Python

Can somebody tell me why am i getting an error at line 5?

import os
path = y #change this path
files = os.listdir(path + '.')
files = [path+x for x in files]
files = sorted(files,key=os.path.getmtime(path))[::-1]

a = files

this is the error message:

Runtime error (ArgumentTypeException): int is not callable
Traceback:
line 5, in script

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Jason Lim on July 9, 2014 at 5:31pm

Hi Dimitar:

Try switching line 5 to:

files = sorted(files, key = lambda(f): os.path.getmtime(f)[::-1])

files = sorted(files, key = os.path.getmtime) [::-1])

Permalink Reply by Dimitar Baldzhiev on July 9, 2014 at 7:34pm

Thanks Jason. I sorted it out several hours ago but I failed to report it on the forum. Anyway I checked your suggestion but it doesn't work. I'm posting the working code. (Or at least working for me)

import os
path = y
os.chdir(path)
files = sorted(os.listdir(os.getcwd()), key=os.path.getmtime)

newest = files[-1]
if newest == "Thumbs.db":
newest = files[-2]

newest = [path+"/"+newest]
a = newest

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