I had a situation where there were 300+ files needed to be renamed to standardized naming; the problem was that each group that had worked on the project had their own naming convention and group tag. One group had date_number_subnumber_grouptag where others might have grouptag_date_number_subnumber and others dropped the grouptag and subnumbers and it was a very messy deal. I wrote a script that fixed the naming to date_number_subnumber_abbreviated-grouptag.
The resulting script is a hack, for sure (there was simply no way to build a script that could deal with all variations of the names at once, so it had to run several times checking for different things). Instead of working directly with the files while trying things out, I wrote a simple script that yanked all the filenames and created empty copies of the files with a simple list comprehension, then I could try out the script without using the real files (or copying the actual files with content, which would have taken much longer). There was one file, after the script ran, that I just couldn't get to without specifically naming it in the script. But renaming one file manually instead of 300+ feels like an acceptable cost. -- best regards, Robert S. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
