I need to rename filenames in a folder containing many text files. The renaming should follow the sequence of numbers for every file. It should be like as follows:
***given files*** ***renamed files***
abc.txt 1.txt
def.txt 2.txt
rsd.txt 3.txt
ijb.txt 4.txt
the above files are in a folder named data
my code is like this
import glob
import os
file=sorted(glob.glob("/home/prasanth/Desktop/project/prgms/dt/details/*.txt"))
fp=[]
for b in file:
fp.append(b)
i=1
for f in fp:
n=f.replace('.html','')
n=n.replace('.htm','')
m=n.replace(n,str(i)+'.txt')
i=i+1
os.rename(f,m)
my problem is the files after renaming are moving into the folder where the python code is written.but i need the renamed files in the same folder in which they are present before
Great, so what have you tried?
As a starting point, have a look at the os-module, especially os.walk() and os.rename().
EDIT:
Your files are moved, because you replace the whole path with the number with m=n.replace(n,str(i)+'.txt'). This renames subfolder\textfile.txt to be renamed to 1.txt, which moves the file to the current directory as a side effect.
Also I am not sure what you try to achieve with the htm(l)-replaces, since afterwards you replace everything with your number.
Additionally, you don't need to build a copy of the list of txt-files and afterwards iterate over it, you can do it directly on the original file list.
So this could probably work for you:
import glob
import os
filelist=sorted(glob.glob("/home/prasanth/Desktop/project/prgms/dt/details/*.txt"))
i=1
for oldname in filelist:
# ignore directories
if os.path.isfile(oldname):
# keep original path
basepath=os.path.split(oldname)[0]
newname=os.path.join(basepath, "{}.txt".format(str(i)))
i=i+1
print("Renaming {} to {}".format(oldname, newname))
os.rename(oldname, newname)
Side note: the rename will fail when a file with the new file name already exists. You should probably handle that with try ... except.