Question

Here is what I have so far in Windows:

    import os
os.chdir("C:/Users/any/Desktop/test")
for files in os.listdir("."):

    print files

Now it prints this:

test picture.jpg
test script.bat
test text.txt

But now where I am stuck is the output is going to be random with each folder done so my idea of a solution is to have it take the list and label each one individually as

filename1 
filename2
filename3

So now filename1 = test picture.jpg

Edit

Well what I am trying to do is later in my code each filename will be used for example say I was trying to rename my files so that any of those files that contained the letter ‘e’ in it, it would be changed to an ‘a’ character:

import os
os.chdir("C:/Users/any/Desktop/test")
for files in os.listdir("."):

    print files



files = files.replace('e', 'a')
print files

But I need to be able to have it do each filename individually so the code could look something like this:

import os
    os.chdir("C:/Users/any/Desktop/test")
    for files in os.listdir("."):

        print filename1



    filename1 = filename1.replace('e', 'a')
    print filename1

Answer 1

While I am not 100% sure I understand what you are trying to do, you could just try this:

dirlist = os.listdir('.')

then each index, starting with zero, of dirlist would yield an entry from your directory. The index values would in effect take the place of the numbers for your filenames.

So rather than having

filename1 
filename2
filename3

you’d have

dirlist[0]
dirlist[1]
dirlist[2]

with minimal effort, and could easily refer to individual entries in any order with the index.

And as an added bonus, you could easily iterate through this list of names with a for-loop if need be

for names in dirlist:
   ...

which would be a bit more tricky with the individual filenames you mentioned in your original post.

Update:

Given your edit to your post, you would have been able to achieve your goal with pretty much your original code:

import os
os.chdir("C:/Users/any/Desktop/test")
for fname in os.listdir("."):
    fname = fname.replace('e', 'a')
    print fname