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Mayke Santos
Mayke Santos

Reputation: 67

How to create new folder each time I run script

I have a script that creates a sequence of pictures each time is ran. What I want to do is to create a new folder each time the script runs, so each sequence of pictures is stored in the new folder. Can somebody tell me how to do it? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1425

Answers (2)

tjohnson
tjohnson

Reputation: 1077

If you want to name the folders with a numerical sequence rather than a timestamp, you can do it like this:

import os
folder_names = filter(os.path.isdir, os.listdir(os.getcwd()))
last_number = max([int(name) for name in folder_names if name.isnumeric()])
new_name = str(last_number + 1).zpad(4)
os.mkdir(new_name)

This finds the largest number that already exists as a folder, then adds one to that number and zero pads it to 4 characters long, and creates a new folder with that name.

Upvotes: 1

at14
at14

Reputation: 1204

Just create a new folder and give it a new name every time your script is run. You could append your folder name with a DateTime stamp, or any other logic that suits your needs.

script.py

import os
import time

def create_images(folder_name):
    # Create and store your images in folder_name
    pass

if __name__ = "__main__":
    folder_name = 'my_folder_' + time.strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S")
    os.mkdir(folder_name)
    create_images(folder_name)

Upvotes: 1

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