Question

Hi I have recently made this script to rename files I scan for work with a prefix and a date. It works pretty well however it would be great if it could make a directory in the current directory with the same name as the first file then move all the scanned files there. E.g. First file is renamed to ‘Scanned As At 22-03-2012 0’ then a directory called ‘Scanned As At 22-03-2012 0’ (Path being M:\Claire\Scanned As At 22-03-2012 0) is made and that file is placed in there.

I’m having a hard time figuring out the best way to do this. Thanks in advance!

import os
import datetime
#target = input( 'Enter full directory path: ')
#prefix = input( 'Enter prefix: ')
target = 'M://Claire//'
prefix = 'Scanned As At '
os.chdir(target)
allfiles = os.listdir(target)
count = 0
for filename in allfiles:
    t = os.path.getmtime(filename)
    v = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t)
    x = v.strftime( ' %d-%m-%Y')
    os.rename(filename, prefix + x + " "+str(count) +".pdf")
    count +=1

Answer 1

Not quite clear about your requirement. If not rename the file, only put it under the directory, then you can use the following codes (only the for-loop of your example):

for filename in allfiles:
    if not os.isfile(filename): continue
    t = os.path.getmtime(filename)
    v = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(t)
    x = v.strftime( ' %d-%m-%Y')
    dirname = prefix + x + " " + str(count)
    target = os.path.join(dirname, filename)
    os.renames(filename, target)
    count +=1

You can check help(os.renames).