On Oct 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> but my focus is to learn how to acess a folder and rename all files in
> this folder.
This is a little more flexible than my last post, and it does the
whole job::
#! /usr/bin/env python
import glob, os, string
def fix_ugly_song_names(songdir, band, spacerepl='_'):
"""Rename an ugly MP3 file name to a beautified shell-correct
name. Only works for files named like "03 song name.mp3".
Use `spacerepl` to alter space replacement character.
WARNING: no error-handling!
"""
# Begin working in specified `songdir`.
os.chdir(songdir)
# Shell-unfriendly characters made into a string.
badchars = ''.join( set(string.punctuation) - set('-_+.~') )
# Identity table for later translation (removal of `badchars`).
tbl = string.maketrans('', '')
# MP3 files in `songdir` having ugly characters.
uglies = glob.glob("*.mp3")
# Make some step-by-step changes to build `pretties` list.
pretties = []
for ugly in uglies:
song, ext = os.path.splitext(ugly)
song = song.translate(tbl, badchars)
song = song.replace(" ", spacerepl)
song = song.title()
song = band+spacerepl+"-"+spacerepl+song[3:]
songext = song + ext
pretties.append(songext)
# Rename each file from ugly to pretty.
for ugly, pretty in zip(uglies, pretties):
if __debug__:
print ugly, '-->', pretty
else:
os.rename(ugly, pretty)
So for you to use spaces, just call with something like this::
fix_ugly_song_names('/var/mp3/pop/The_Beatles/Rubber_Soul',
'The Beatles',
spacerepl=' ')
I used the __debug__ gate to allow you to just see what it will do::
$ ls -1
01 drive my car.mp3
02 norwegian wood.mp3
03 you won't see me.mp3
04 nowhere man.mp3
mvmp3.py
$ python ./mvmp3.py
01 drive my car.mp3 --> The Beatles - Drive My Car.mp3
02 norwegian wood.mp3 --> The Beatles - Norwegian Wood.mp3
03 you won't see me.mp3 --> The Beatles - You Wont See Me.mp3
04 nowhere man.mp3 --> The Beatles - Nowhere Man.mp3
And then to actually do it with the non-__debug__ path::
$ python -O ./mvmp3.py
$ ls -1
mvmp3.py
The Beatles - Drive My Car.mp3
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood.mp3
The Beatles - Nowhere Man.mp3
The Beatles - You Wont See Me.mp3
If you want to keep the `badchars` in the file names, then you will
have to do *more* work since `song.title()` won't be able to do the
work for you.
Now I need to go beautify my collection. :-)
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