Lets say I have a bunch of folders/files with a name like
abc_06082018
where the numbers are the date it was created but they are different for each folder, however the abc_ stays the same for every name. How do I only read after the abc_ and up until 8 number in?
BTW: The folder is the current working directory of the python 2.7 program, so i'm using os.getcwd() and saving it to a variable most likely as a string. The idea is to get the date from the cwd and make a file in the cwd in the form of
newfile_06082018.txt
where the numbers are taken from the name of the cwd Thank you!
The name of the folder is in a string - just use normal string manipulation! .partition() is your friend.
folder = os.getcwd()
absolute_folder = os.path.abspath(folder)
only_folder_name = os.path.basename(absolute_folder)
prefix, sep, date_suffix = only_folder_name.partition('_')
filename = 'newfile_{date}.txt'.format(date=date_suffix)