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Foxtrot 1-5
Foxtrot 1-5

Reputation: 379

Rename Multiple folder in a directory with python

I want to automate renaming multiple folders in a folder using python. This is the code i use:

import os

path = r"C:/Users/Dimas hermanto/Documents/Data science gadungan/Belajar python/Computer vision and     
Deep learning/Flask tutorial 2/stanford-dogs-dataset/test"

directory_list = os.listdir(path)




for filename in directory_list:
    src = filename
    dst = filename[filename.find('-') + 1:]

    # print(dst)

    os.rename(src, dst)

print("File renamed!")

This is the name format of the folders i want to rename:

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What i'm trying to do is slice the filename string so it'll only came out as 

Chihuahua 
Japanese_spaniel, 
Maltese_dog,
Pekinese, 
Shih_tzu, 
etc.

But when i run the code, it returns:

Exception has occurred: FileNotFoundError
[WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified: 'n02085620-Chihuahua' -> 'Chihuahua'

What should i do to fix this ? When i try to print the dst variable, it return the list of desired target names. So i assume that i already set the right folder path

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4765

Answers (1)

duckboycool
duckboycool

Reputation: 2455

The src and dst aren't the absolute path, so it's trying to rename a file from the directory of the python script.

You should be able to fix this just by replacing os.rename(src, dst) with os.rename(os.path.join(path, src), os.path.join(path, dst)) to specify absolute path.

Upvotes: 3

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