Rename multiple files using names in a text file

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Hi,

I would like to rename files (jpg's ones) using a text file containing the
new names...
Below is the code that doesn't work :
*****
#!/usr/bin/python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from os import listdir, getcwd, rename
import re
list_names=['new_name1','ne w_name2']
list_files = listdir(getcwd( ))
filtre = re.compile("jpg $", re.IGNORECASE)
list_jpg = filter(filtre.s earch, list_files)
#strip all element of list list_jpg
list_jpg_strip=[]
for nom in list_jpg:
#print nom.strip()
list_jpg_strip. append(nom.stri p())
#let's rename :
i=0
while i <= len(list_jpg_st rip):
rename(list_jpg _strip[i],list_names[i])
i=i+1
****
The error message is :
File "ecm.py", line 17, in <module>
rename(list_jpg _strip[i],list_names[i])
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
and all files exists, I checked it hundred times ! :-s
Do you have a clue ?
Thanks a lot.
Rémi.

[James Stroud]

rémi wrote:

Hi,

I would like to rename files (jpg's ones) using a text file containing the
new names...
Below is the code that doesn't work :
*****
#!/usr/bin/python
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from os import listdir, getcwd, rename
import re
list_names=['new_name1','ne w_name2']
list_files = listdir(getcwd( ))
filtre = re.compile("jpg $", re.IGNORECASE)
list_jpg = filter(filtre.s earch, list_files)
#strip all element of list list_jpg
list_jpg_strip=[]
for nom in list_jpg:
#print nom.strip()
list_jpg_strip. append(nom.stri p())
#let's rename :
i=0
while i <= len(list_jpg_st rip):
rename(list_jpg _strip[i],list_names[i])
i=i+1
****
The error message is :
File "ecm.py", line 17, in <module>
rename(list_jpg _strip[i],list_names[i])
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
and all files exists, I checked it hundred times ! :-s
Do you have a clue ?
Thanks a lot.
Rémi.

Other than that your strip() is stripping off some whitespace that is
part of the name, I really can't see the problem either, but did you try
to add in the explicit path? E.g.:

path_to = getcwd()
list_files = listdir(path_to )
..
..
..
for nom in list_jpg:
old_path = os.path.join(pa th_to, nom.strip())
list_jpg_strip. append(old_path )
..
..
..
for old_path, new_name in zip(list_jpg_st rip, list_names):
new_path = os.path.join(pa th_to, new_name)
rename(old_path , new_path)

James

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Le Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:52:52 -0700, James Stroud a écrit:

[...]

Other than that your strip() is stripping off some whitespace that is
part of the name, I really can't see the problem either, but did you try
to add in the explicit path? E.g.:

actually, the problem was in "while i <= len(list_jpg_st rip)" and i should
have been "while i < len(list_jpg_st rip)".

Antoher problem was the name of jpg's files used for testing. A naughty
one was nammed "file.jpg " instead of "file.jpg". So maube, as you saif,
stripping is useless for list of jpg files.
Thanks a lot.
Rémi