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Deleting last 10 characters of all txt file names in a directory (Python)

Currently the file names in a directory are 'test1_1_4302929399.txt', 'test1_2_903929029.txt', 'test1_3_3949492929.txt' , how do I delete the last 10 digits in the file names for this directory so that the final is 'test1_1.txt', 'test1_2.txt', etc. in python? I have tried:

"""

import os

with open(filename, 'rb+') as filehandle:
    filehandle.seek(-1, os.SEEK_END)
    filehandle.truncate()

"""

But this doesn't work for all files as they are named differently. Many thanks!

Solution

  • Try this. Use os.rename

    import os
path1=....
for i in os.listdir(path1):
    os.rename(os.path.join(path1, i),os.path.join(path1, i[:8])+'.txt')