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Michael Jorgensen
1,189 PointsI've tested this problem on my laptop and it works just fine.
Maybe I'm missing something, but from the instructions and examples this "cleans up" the file type consistency
import os
# Filenames consist of a username (alphanumeric, 3-12 characters)
# and a date (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day),
# and an extension. They should end up in the format
# year-month-day-username.extension.
# Example: kennethlove2-2012-04-29.txt becomes 2012-04-29-kennethlove2.txt
import re
def cleanup(path):
# your code here
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
for file in files:
result = re.search("([a-z0-9]+)(-)([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})(.[a-z]+)", file)
if(result):
replace = result.group(3) + result.group(2) + result.group(1) + result.group(4)
if(os.path.isfile(path + '\\' + file)):
os.remove(root + '\\' + file)
filenew = open(root + '\\' + replace, 'w')
filenew.close
1 Answer
Kevin Ryan
6,572 PointsIt looks like. You are removing the existing file and creating a new one with the same name. Use os.rename instead.
for dname,subdirs,files in os.walk(path):
for fname in files:
#modify file name and store in result
os.rename(os.path.join(path, fname),os.path.join(path, result))