Popular Python recipes tagged "rename"

Move files with rename if required (Python)

2012-04-30T11:09:05-07:00

Python recipe 578116 by John Reid (files, move, rename). Revision 2.

A python script that renames (moves) files to a destination directory. However it will not overwrite existing files. The script uses a renaming strategy where a count is incremented in order to avoid naming conflicts.

Example usage::

mv-rename a.ext b.ext target-dir/

would mv a.ext and b.ext into the target directory. If::

target-dir/a.ext
target-dir/b.ext

already exist, the newly moved files would be named::

target-dir/a-<N>.ext
target-dir/b-<M>.ext

where <N> and <M> are the lowest numbers such that there is no conflict.

EXIF-date-based JPEG files rename using PIL (Python)

2012-07-21T02:38:33-07:00

Python recipe 578219 by Jorge Barnaby (date, exif, jfif, jpeg, jpg, photo, pil, rename). Revision 2.

Rename JPEG files according to EXIF-date using PIL [library].

If global variable CREATE_HARDLINK is set, script creates Windows (XP) batch file for creating hardlink version of source files.

PIL available here: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

AutoRename.py (Python)

2010-08-01T21:39:54-07:00

Python recipe 577342 by Stephen Chappell (rename).

A friend was trying to open files with Korean names and was finding that Windows 7 was giving him errors. There were well over 22,000 files to deal with, and he did not want to rename them all individually. As a result, this program was quickly written to help him in renaming his vast assortment of files and folders so that he could easily open them in his resource viewer application.

Make unique file name (Python)

2010-04-18T21:07:52-07:00

Python recipe 577200 by Denis Barmenkov (file, name, rename). Revision 2.

Sometimes it is important to save data in the file but the file with the specified name already exists. This function creates a file name that is similar to the original by adding a unique numeric suffix. This avoids the renaming of existing files.

Rename MP3 files from ID3 tags (does not require external ID3 modules) (Python)

2011-11-05T15:27:32-07:00

Python recipe 576811 by ccpizza (id3, mp3, rename). Revision 5.

Rename MP3 files in the current folder according to ID3 tags. This is based on Ned Batchelder's id3reader class. I only added the code in the __main__ method.

When run without arguments, the script renames the files in the current folder. The directory can be specified explicitly as the first argument.
The files do not need to necessarily have the MP3 extension.
To move the files to directories based on album name use the -d switch.
Does not work with other file types, such as OGG, M4A, MP4, etc.
This is a quick and dirty script that works for me most of the times. If you need more power, try mutagen, picard, mp3tag or something similar.

EXIF-date-based JPEG files rename using PIL (Python)

2009-02-10T07:28:48-08:00

Python recipe 576646 by Denis Barmenkov (date, exif, jfif, jpeg, jpg, photo, pil, rename). Revision 4.

Rename JPEG files according to EXIF-date using PIL [library].

If global variable CREATE_HARDLINK is set, script creates Windows (XP) batch file for creating hardlink version of source files.

PIL available here: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

Directory Walking File Renamer (Python)

2008-12-28T08:04:34-08:00

Python recipe 576597 by mickey Hadick (directory, file, rename).

Walk through a list of directories and rename the files within those directories based on the directory name and an index value. Useful for managing photos when downloaded from a camera into directories based on the shooting date.