ValueError: rename: src too long for Windows on python

Question

I am not a programmer but I tried to automate renaming thousands of files using python. but this error appear. I've tried to shorten the path using win32api, using \\?\ notation before the path, even moving the folder to drive C:\ to shorten the path but the error still exist. I want the name of files to add 0 depending how many the files are. ex: if I have 2000 files, I want the name to be x0000,x0001, x0012, until the last x2000

import os, win32api

def main():
    i = 0
    path = "C:/New folder/"
    path = win32api.GetShortPathName(path)
    while i < len(os.listdir(path))+1:
        filename = os.listdir(path)
        s = len(str(i))
        p = "x" + ("0" * (4-int(s))) + str(i) + ".jpg"
        my_dest = p
        my_source = path + str(filename)
        my_dest =path + my_dest
        os.rename(my_source, my_dest)
        print(my_dest)
        i+=1

if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

Answer 1

os.listdir(path) returns a list of filenames, not a single filename. You must iterate over this list:

import os, win32api

def main():
    path = "C:/New folder/"
    path = win32api.GetShortPathName(path)
    filenames = os.listdir(path)
    for i, filename in enumerate(filenames):
        my_source = path + filename
        new_name = 'x%04d.jpg' % i
        my_dest = path + new_name
        os.rename(my_source, my_dest)
        print(my_source, my_dest) # print both

if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()

On one of my local directories I print (without renaming):

C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/.htaccess C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0000.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/angucomplete-alt C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0001.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/angular-route.min.js C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0002.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/angular.html C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0003.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/angular2.html C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0004.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/angular3.html C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0005.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/angular4.html C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0006.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/angular5.html C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0007.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/angular6.html C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0008.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/authorization.py C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0009.jpg
C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/authorization.pyc C:/Booboo/ANGULA~1/x0010.jpg
etc.