ross wrote: > I want to do some tricky text file manipulation on many files, but have > only a little programming knowledge. > > What are the ideal languages for the following examples? > > 1. Starting from a certain folder, look in the subfolders for all > filenames matching *FOOD*.txt Any files matching in each folder should > be copied to a new subfolder within the current folder called EATING > with a new name of *FOOD*COPY.txt
This should get you started: import errno from path import path # http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/python/path/ dst_dirpath = path("EATING") # create dst_dirpath try: dst_dirpath.makedirs() # make destination directory and its parents except OSError, err: # error! if err.errno = errno.EEXIST: # might just be that it already exists if not dst_dirpath.isdir(): # and it's a directory raise # if not, raise an exception for filepath in path(".").walkfiles("*FOOD*.txt"): infile = file(filepath) outfile = file(dst_dirpath.joinpath(filepath.namebase+"_COPY.txt")) ...do processing here... > My first objective is to process the files as described. > My second objective is to learn the best language for this sort of text > manipulation. The language should run on Windows 98, XP and Linux. > > Would Python be best, or would a macro-scripting thing like AutoHotKey > work? Personally, I'd use Python, but what do you expect when you ask here? -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
