On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Christopher Spears
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I want to write a script that takes a list of images and renumbers them with
> a user supplied number. Here is a solution I came up while noodling around
> in the interpreter:
>
>>>> alist = ["frame.0001.tif","frame.0002.tif","frame.0003.tif"]
>>>> new_start = 5000
You might want to sort the list, depending on where it came from:
alist.sort()
>>>> for x in alist:
> ... name, number, ext = x.split(".")
> ... new_frame = name + "." + str(new_start) + "." + ext
You could use string formatting here;
new_frame = '%s.%s.%s' % (name, new_start, ext)
> ... new_start = new_start + 1
new_start += 1
> ... print new_frame
> ...
> frame.5000.tif
> frame.5001.tif
> frame.5002.tif
>
> How is that for a solution? Is there a more elegant way to solve this
> problem?
It's fine.
Kent
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