Renaming Files in a folder

i was reorganizing a bunch of my music and was thinking on some ways to make it go faster. I put together the beginnings of a renaming python script, right now it is searching a given directory and replacing whatever is passed in to it. Pretty simple at the moment but we will see where it goes.

I switched over to python 3.0 today as well, one of the things i noticed off the bat is that print command has changed. Instead of the old : print 'My Text' its now print('My Text')

Took me a little while to figure out why those commands weren't working but seems like its on track now.

import os

import os.path

def findReplace(find , replace, dir):

# dir = r'c:\Temp\\'

# find = '-'

# replace = ''

for file in os.listdir(dir):

print(file)

if find in file:

newName = file.replace( find , replace)

newName = newName.strip(' ')

print('New Name = %s' % newName)

print('File = %s' %file)

print('Directory + filename = %s' % (dir + '\\' +file))

if os.path.isfile(dir + file) == True:

os.rename(dir + file, dir + newName)

print('Full final File Name = ' + file)

def split(index , splitBy, dir):

for file in os.listdir(dir):

if splitBy in file:

splitList = file.split(splitBy)

print(splitList)

newName =splitList[index].lstrip(' ')

print(newName)

if os.path.isfile(dir + file) == True:

os.rename(dir + file, dir + newName)

print('Full final File Name = ' + file)

if __name__ == '__main__':

split(3 , '-' , r '')