Hi I'm writing a python script that creates directories from user
input.
Sometimes the user inputs characters that aren't valid characters for a
file or directory name.
Here are the characters that I consider to be valid characters...
valid =
':./,^0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ '
if I have a string called fname I want to go through each character in
the filename and if it is not a valid character, then I want to replace
it with a space.
This is what I have:
def fixfilename(fname):
valid =
':.\,^0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ '
for i in range(len(fname)):
if valid.find(fname[i]) < 0:
fname[i] = ' '
return fname
Anyone think of a simpler solution?
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