# rename ALL php files to html in every subfolder of the folder 'data' os.rename('*.php', '*.html') # how to tell python to rename ALL php files to html to ALL subfolder under 'data' ?
# current path of the file to be processed path = './data' # this must be somehow in a loop i feel that read every file of every subfolder # open an html file for reading f = open(path, 'rw') # read the contents of the whole file data = f.read() # replace all php tags with empty string data = data.replace('<?', '') data = data.replace('?>', '') # write replaced data to file data = f.write() # insert an increasing unique integer number at the very first line of every html file processing comment = "<!-- %s -->"%(idnum) # how will the number change here an increased by one file after file? f = f.close() Please help i'm new to python an apart from syntx its a logic problem as well and needs experience. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list