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Harry
Harry

Reputation: 33

How to remove multiple characters from file names under sub dir using python?

Whats best method to remove special charters (multiple characters) from file name currently I am doing this way but its not efficient to remove multiple different characters at same time eg %$^&* etc

import os
"""
Remove () and empty space from file names
"""
path = '/var/www/POD/2021/09/12'
os.chdir(path)

files = os.listdir(path)

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
    for f in files:
        cwd = os.path.join(root, f[:0])
        cwd = os.chdir(cwd)
        os.rename(f, f.replace(' ', ''))

Upvotes: 0

Views: 482

Answers (2)

Harry
Harry

Reputation: 33

Thanks this is how I manage to implement

path = 'C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\Test'
os.chdir(path)
remove = "(  )"

for filename in os.listdir(path):
    t = str.maketrans("", "", remove)
    newname = filename.translate(t)
    os.rename(filename, newname)

Upvotes: 0

Daweo
Daweo

Reputation: 36540

This look like task for .translate method, consider following example

name = "name (with )brackets"
remove = "( )"
t = str.maketrans("", "", remove)
new_name = name.translate(t)
print(new_name)

output

namewithbrackets

Explanation: .maketrans takes 2 or 3 arguments, first 2 must be equal-length strs, n-th character from first is replace with corresponding character from second. I do not use this features, so I put empty str, third argument is str with characters to remove.

Upvotes: 1

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