Hi I have recently made this script to rename files I scan for work with a prefix and a date. It works pretty well however it would be great if it could make a directory in the current directory with the same name as the first file then move all the scanned files there. E.g. First file is renamed to 'Scanned As At 22-03-2012 0' then a directory called 'Scanned As At 22-03-2012 0' (Path being M:\Claire\Scanned As At 22-03-2012 0) is made and that file is placed in there.
I'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to do this. Thanks in advance!
import os
import datetime
#target = input( 'Enter full directory path: ')
#prefix = input( 'Enter prefix: ')
target = 'M://Claire//'
prefix = 'Scanned As At '
os.chdir(target)
allfiles = os.listdir(target)
count = 0
for filename in allfiles:
t = os.path.getmtime(filename)
v = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t)
x = v.strftime( ' %d-%m-%Y')
os.rename(filename, prefix + x + " "+str(count) +".pdf")
count +=1
Not quite clear about your requirement. If not rename the file, only put it under the directory, then you can use the following codes (only the for-loop of your example):
for filename in allfiles:
if not os.isfile(filename): continue
t = os.path.getmtime(filename)
v = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t)
x = v.strftime( ' %d-%m-%Y')
dirname = prefix + x + " " + str(count)
target = os.path.join(dirname, filename)
os.renames(filename, target)
count +=1
You can check help(os.renames).
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I want to make a script that monitors changes in a folder and moves files to special directories. I use pip-watchdog
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
def makeUnique(path,counter):
filename, extension = os.path.splitext(path)
# IF FILE EXISTS, ADDS NUMBER TO THE END OF THE FILENAME
file_split=filename.split('\\')
new_name="DUPLICATE_"+file_split[-1]
new_file=file_split[-1].replace(file_split[-1],new_name)
while os.path.exists(path):
path = new_file + " (" + str(counter) + ")" + extension
counter += 1
return path
def move(dest, entry, name):
"""dest = D:\Download\ChromeSetup.exe"""
file_exists = os.path.exists(dest + "\\" + name)
counter=1
if file_exists:
unique_name = makeUnique(entry,counter)
dest = dest+"\\"+unique_name
os.rename(entry, dest)
try:
print(f'[magenta][[/] [indian_red1 bold]{name}[/] [magenta]][/] -> [magenta][[/]
[orange_red1 bold]{dest}[/] [magenta]][/] to ' + f'[dark_orange]{dest}[/]')
shutil.move(entry,dest)
except:
pass
def moveByExtension(str, dest_dir, entry, name):
if name.endswith(str):
dest = dest_dir
move(dest, entry, name)
dest_dir_exe = r'D:\Download\exe_files'
class MoverHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
def on_created(self, event):
"""when a file or directory is created"""
with os.scandir(source_dir) as entries:
for entry in entries:
name = entry.name
# app
moveByExtension('.exe', dest_dir_exe, entry, name)
My current filesystem tree:
-Download/
-- ChromeSetup.exe (rename and move to exe_files)
-Download/exe_files/
-- ChromeSetup.exe
-- DUPLICATE_ChromeSetup (1).exe
But if ChromeSetup.exe is in the download again, then the error occurs 'DUPLICATE_ChromeSetup (1).exe' already exists, although 'DUPLICATE_ChromeSetup (2).exe' is expected.
want to count if a file exists and store a duplicate followed by a copy number
I'm learning python at the moment...maybe I don't see the obvious problem
thank you in advance
I want to find folders that has no data in it and get thier folder names.
The first and second folders are named randomly in numbers and has data in random folders.
the codes are
path = 'M://done/mesh/*'
FL = glob.glob(path)
FL2 = glob.glob(FL[0] + '/*')
FL2
['M://done/mesh\\41\\23',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\24',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\33',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\34',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\35',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\36',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\43',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\44',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\45',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\46',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\47',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\53',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\54',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\55',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\63',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\64',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\65',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\66',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\67',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\74',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\75',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\76',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\77',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\85',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\86',
'M://done/mesh\\41\\87']
FL2[24][24:26] + FL2[24][27:30] + '0000' # why do I need [24:26}, [27:30]???
finding_files = ['_Caminfo.dat','running.csv']
print(FL2[0] + '/0000/02_output/' + FL2[0][24:26] + FL2[0][27:30] + '0000/' + fn1[0])
'41860000'
You can use os.listdir to find empty folders, like below:
import os
folder_list = ["D:\\test_1", "D:\\test_2"]
empty_folders = []
for folder in folder_list:
try:
if not os.listdir(folder):
empty_folders.append(folder)
except FileNotFoundError:
pass
print(empty_folders)
so as you can see im trying to create a small backup script for my self, to select needed files and back them up.
import shutil
import datetime
import os
import time
def backup():
# set the update interval
while True:
backup_interval = input("Please enter the backup interval in seconds: ") # 300
try:
valid_time = int(backup_interval) // 60
print("Backup time set to:", valid_time, "minutes!")
break
except ValueError:
print("This time is not valid, please enter a correct time in seconds: ")
print(">>> 60 seconds = 1 minute, 3600 seconds = 60 minutes.")
backup_file = input(r"Please enter the path for the file to backup: ") # D:\Python\BackupDB\test.db"
dest_dir = input(r"Please enter the destination path: ") # D:\Python\BackupDB\
folder_name = input(r"Please name your backup folder: ") # BD_Backup
now = str(datetime.datetime.now())[:19]
now = now.replace(":", "_")
# backup_file = backup_file.replace(backup_file, backup_file + str(now) + ".db")
# thats why I got the FileNotFoundError
final_destination = os.path.join(dest_dir, folder_name)
if not os.path.exists(final_destination):
os.makedirs(final_destination)
print("hello world")
shutil.copy(backup_file, final_destination)
the first question is, how do i replace the name after i copied the file into the destination folder to get something like that test.db -> test_2020-02-23 08_36_22.db
like here :
source_dir = r"D:\Python\BackupDB\test.db"
destination_dir = r"D:\Python\BackupDB\BD_Backup\test_" + str(now) + ".db"
shutil.copy(source_dir, destination_dir)
output :
test_2020-02-23 08_36_22.db
what im doing wrong here?
and how to copy the file 5 times and after a while (backup_interval) delete the first one and move the last 4 up and create a new one so I have in total 5 copies of that file?
I have modified your code as you need,
backup_file = input(r"Please enter the path for the file to backup: ") # D:\Python\BackupDB\test.db"
dest_dir = input(r"Please enter the destination path: ") # D:\Python\BackupDB\
folder_name = input(r"Please name your backup folder: ") # BD_Backup
old_file_name=backup_file.split("/")[-1]
now = str(datetime.datetime.now())[:19]
now = now.replace(":", "_")
new_file_name = old_file_name.split(".")[0]+"_" + str(now) + ".db"
final_destination = os.path.join(dest_dir, folder_name)
if not os.path.exists(final_destination):
os.mkdir(final_destination)
new_file="/"+new_file_name
shutil.copy(backup_file, final_destination)
os.rename(final_destination+'/'+old_file_name,final_destination+new_file)
I did like , after copy the file, i just rename it
I've ran into a similar problem before and the reason was that the creation of the directory hadn't completed yet before trying to access it. A simple sleep before the copy should be able to confirm this.
When try to rename the files in a specific folder, the program code renames
all the sub folders too. Is there a way to fix it?
dname = input("\nenter the path\t")
if os.path.isdir(dname):
dst = input("\nenter new file name: \t")
n = 1
for i in os.listdir(dname):
if not os.path.isdir(i):
mystr = ".txt"
src = os.path.join(dname, i)
dd = dst + str(n) + mystr
dd = os.path.join(dname, dd)
os.rename(src, dd)
n += 1
Yours "isdirectory" (os.path.isdir(i)) check doesn't seem to work.
You can precompile the list of files present in the directory using the below code,
files = (file for file in os.listdir (dname)
if os.path.isfile ( os.path.join ( dname, file) ))
And then directly iterate over the files, like,
for i in files:
mystr = ".txt"
src = os.path.join(dname, i)
dd = dst + str(n) + mystr
dd = os.path.join(dname, dd)
os.rename(src, dd)
n += 1
You can also have a look at this answer, which lists all the ways in which you can list files in a given directory.
Link: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14176179/10164003
Thanks
It seems below the line isn't working for you.
os.path.isdir(i)
Try out creating the full path before checking :
os.path.isdir(os.path.join(dname, i)):
I'm trying to right a script that will walk through a given directory and rename, move, and delete the original directory. Each directory has a *.mp4 file and a subfolder containing *.jpg files. I'm having trouble deleting the original directory when I'm done renaming and moving the files. What so far is:
import datetime, os, re, shutil, logging, smtplib
logging.basicConfig(level = logging.INFO, format = ' %(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
#logging.disable(logging.info)
path = '\\\\RT-N66U\\sda2\\Documents'
desired_text1 = re.compile(r'^\d{3}_[a-zA-Z]+\d{3}.jpg')
desired_text2 = re.compile(r'^\d{3}_[a-zA-Z]+_\d{3}.jpg')
renamed_files = ''
for folderName, subfolders, filenames in os.walk(path):
if folderName.startswith(path + '\\GEO-'):
logging.info('The current folder is ' + folderName)
for subfolder in subfolders:
if subfolder.startswith('Pics'):
pic_folder = subfolder
for filename in filenames:
if filename.endswith('.mp4'):
changed_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(filename[3:17], '%b %d, %Y').strftime('%y.%m.%d') # Changes the name of the date to the desired format
year = datetime.datetime.strptime(filename[3:17], '%b %d, %Y').strftime('%Y')
name = filename[20:-25]
name = name.lower()
modified_name = '.'.join(re.findall('\S+', name))
final_name = 'geo.' + changed_date + '.' + modified_name
if not os.path.exists('\\\\RT-N66U\\sda2\\Me\\GEO\\%s\\%s\\%s' % (year, changed_date[3:5], final_name)):
os.makedirs('\\\\RT-N66U\\sda2\\Me\\GEO\\%s\\%s\\%s' % (year, changed_date[3:5], final_name))
if not os.path.exists('\\\\RT-N66U\\sda2\\Me\\GEO\\%s\\%s\\%s\\%s' % (year, changed_date[3:5], final_name, pic_folder)):
os.makedirs('\\\\RT-N66U\\sda2\\Me\\GEO\\%s\\%s\\%s\\%s' % (year, changed_date[3:5], final_name, pic_folder))
if filename.endswith('.mp4'):
logging.info(filename)
os.rename(folderName + '\\' + filename, '\\\\RT-N66U\\sda2\\Me\\GEO\\%s\\%s\\%s\\%s.mp4' % (year, changed_date[3:5], final_name, final_name))
# This part will logg and rename the files by adding a '_'
mo1 = desired_text1.search(filename)
mo2 = desired_text2.search(filename)
if mo1:
logging.info(folderName + '\\' + filename)
os.rename(folderName + '\\' + filename, '\\\\RT-N66U\\sda2\\Me\\GEO\\%s\\%s\\%s\\%s\\%s_%s' % (year, changed_date[3:5], final_name, pic_folder, filename[:-7], filename[-7:]))
renamed_files += filename + ' -> ' + filename[:-7] + '_' + filename[-7:] + '\n'
elif mo2:
logging.info(folderName + '\\' + filename)
os.rename(folderName + '\\' + filename, '\\\\RT-N66U\\sda2\\Me\\GEO\\%s\\%s\\%s\\%s\\%s' % (year, changed_date[3:5], final_name, pic_folder, filename))
renamed_files += filename + '\n'
# This part will check if the directory is empty and delete it if so
if os.listdir(folderName) == []:
logging.info(folderName)
shutil.rmtree(folderName)
What ends up happening is that all sub-directories will be deleted if they're empty and leaving the primary directory empty. I would like the primary directory to be removed as well, since all the files have been moved. Is there a way to accomplish this within the for statement?
If you mean deleting the directory known as folderName inside your main for loop, I think it's not really possible since you're iterating over an object that contains it. Like if inside a for i in this_list: you would like to remove an object from this_list. This is not possible before you're out of the loop.
In order to achieve what you want, I would write a function to recurse into the folder tree. The idea would be something like:
def process_folder(folder_name):
do some stuff on files
get the subfolders of folder_name
for f in subfolders:
process_folder(subfolder_name)
if subfolder_name is empty, delete it
maybe do some other stuff on files
and in the main script, call process_folder(path). (This would leave only the top folder there even if it's empty though, so be sure you don't want to delete it; or to call process_folder at a higher level, or to add an instruction to delete it too if it's empty).