working with files and directories

[halex2000]

Hi all, I'm new with Python, and I thought to use it to automatically rename
some files in a directory, but I don't know where should I search the
functions: to get all the files of a directory, to rename the files and so
on.
Thank you.

 

[Bryan Olson]

Hi all, I'm new with Python, and I thought to use it to automatically rename
some files in a directory, but I don't know where should I search the
functions: to get all the files of a directory, to rename the files and so
on.

Python programmers are constantly looking at:

http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html

In this case, see 14.1.4, 11.1, and 11.10.

Happy hacking.

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

Hi all, I'm new with Python, and I thought to use it to automatically rename some files in a
directory, but I don't know where should I search the functions: to get all the files of a
directory, to rename the files and so on.

see

http://effbot.org/pyfaq/how-do-i-delete-a-file-and-other-file-questions.htm
http://docs.python.org/tut/node12.html

and the relevant modules in the library reference.

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[Thomas Ploch]

Hi all, I'm new with Python, and I thought to use it to automatically rename
some files in a directory, but I don't know where should I search the
functions: to get all the files of a directory, to rename the files and so
on.
Thank you.

Have you actually even tried to find some "documentation"?
Have you placed a google search "python directories rename files"?
Thomas

 

[halex2000]

Have you actually even tried to find some "documentation"?
Have you placed a google search "python directories rename files"?
Thomas

Actually I did it on the documentation file provided with the windows
distribution. I took a look at 11 ("File and Directory Access") but the
listed functions doesn't appear to be what I need. 14.1.4 should do the job,
but was not as intuitive to find as the previous one.

 

[halex2000]

Python programmers are constantly looking at:

http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html

In this case, see 14.1.4, 11.1, and 11.10.

Happy hacking.

Thank you very much

 

[Duncan Booth]

Actually I did it on the documentation file provided with the windows
distribution. I took a look at 11 ("File and Directory Access") but
the listed functions doesn't appear to be what I need. 14.1.4 should
do the job, but was not as intuitive to find as the previous one.

Do you know about the search tab in windows help? Searching for "rename
files", or indeed a search identical to the one suggested for Google will
both find 14.1.4 as the top hit.

 

[halex2000]

Do you know about the search tab in windows help? Searching for "rename
files", or indeed a search identical to the one suggested for Google will
both find 14.1.4 as the top hit.

I'm aware of it, thank you. I usually don't use to ask for infos that I
could easily find myself in a few seconds, but I had not the time at the
moment to even start a search (of course, If I knew it would have been so
quick, I would have done it myself). I was just under the impression that I
was looking in the wrong place.