Hello!
I was trying to create a program to search for the largest common
subsetstring among filenames in a directory, them move the filenames
to the substring's name. I have succeeded, with help, in doing so and
here is the code.
Thanks for your help!
--- Code ---
#This program was created with feed back from: smeghead and sirup plus
aum of I2P; and also tiissa and John Machin of comp.lang.python
#Thank you very much.
#I still get the odd error in this, but it was 1 out of 2500 files
successfully sorted. Make sure you have a directory under c:/test/
called 'aa' and have your
#I release this code into the public domain :o), send feed back to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
files in c:/test/
import pickle
import os
import shutil
os.chdir ( '/test')
aaaa=2
aa='aa'
x=0
y=20
while y <> 2:
print y
List = []
for fileName in os.listdir ( '/test/' ):
Directory = fileName
List.append(Directory)
List.append("A111111111111")
List.sort()
List.append("Z111111111111")
ListLength = len(List) - 1
x = 0
while x < ListLength:
ListLength = len(List) - 1
b = List[x]
c = List[x + 1]
backward1 = List[x - 1]
d = b[:y]
e = c[:y]
backward2 = backward1[:y]
f = str(d)
g = str(e)
backward3 = str(backward2)
if f==g:
if os.path.isdir (aa+"/"+f) == True:
shutil.move(b,aa+"/"+f)
else:
os.mkdir(aa+"/"+f)
#os.mkdir(f)
shutil.move(b,aa+"/"+f)
else:
if f==backward3:
if os.path.isdir (aa+"/"+f) == True:
shutil.move(b,aa+"/"+f)
else:
os.mkdir(aa+"/"+f)
#os.mkdir(f)
shutil.move(b,aa+"/"+f)
else:
aaaa=3
x = x + 1
y = y - 1
--- End Code ---
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Synonymous) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hello,
>
> Can regular expressions compare file names to one another. It seems RE
> can only compare with input i give it, while I want it to compare
> amongst itself and give me matches if the first x characters are
> similiar.
>
> For example:
>
> cccat
> cccap
> cccan
> dddfa
> dddfg
> dddfz
>
> Would result in the 'ddd' and the 'ccc' being grouped together if I
> specified it to look for a match of the first 3 characters.
>
> What I am trying to do is build a script that will automatically
> create directories based on duplicates like this starting with say 10
> characters, and going down to 1. This way "Vacation1.jpg,
> Vacation2.jpg" would be sent to its own directory (if i specifiy the
> first 8 characters being similiar) and "Cat1.jpg, Cat2.jpg" would
> (with 3) as well.
>
> Thanks for your help and interest!
>
> S M
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