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Replacing Filename characters with python

Asked 2011-08-23T12:13:41.347
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I have some code which adds the word "_manual" onto the end of a load of filenames.. I need to change the script so that it deletes the last two letters of the filename (ES) and then replaces it with _ES_Manual for example: AC-5400ES.txt --> AC-5400_ES_manual.txt

How would i incorporate that function into this code?

folder = r"C:/Documents and Settings/DuffA/Bureaublad/test"
import os # glob is unnecessary
for root, dirs, filenames in os.walk(folder):
    for filename in filenames:
        fullpath = os.path.join(root, filename)
        filename_split = os.path.splitext(fullpath) # filename and extensionname (extension in [1])
        filename_zero, fileext = filename_split
        print fullpath, filename_zero + "_manual" + fileext
        os.rename(fullpath, filename_zero + "_manual" + fileext)
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you could do:

for filename in filenames:
    print(filename) #should display AC-5400ES.txt
    filename = filename.replace("ES.txt","ES_manual.txt")
    print(filename) #should display AC-5400ES_manual.txt
    fullpath = os.path.join(root, filename)
    os.rename(fullpath, filename)
answered 2011-08-23T12:18:22.643

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