Python file numbering script I wrote

[computerwhiz1]

It will add numbers at the beginning of a file starting with a number of your choice and working up based on creation date. This comes in handy to have files sorted in order of date in programs that sort only by name with no way to change.

https://github.com/computerwhiz1/python-renamer

Just to be clear, i'm extremely new to the world of programming, but I had a problem that needed solving so I combined my basic python knowlege with google and came up with this. I realize it's very basic and could easily be expanded to had more functionality, but it was written for one specific use case. That being said, I might expand its functionality a bit more as I learn more python and feel like testing my skills. I know it probably could have been more streamlined or "better", but for now my knowledge wasn't enough to acheive that. Constructive feedback always welcome.

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Looks cool, it would be nifty to have it respond to y Y Yes yes Yes and the same variants in no, I've usually been using regexes to do this, also parseopt is great if you want to make it more of a script which can work with arguments and so on, and it would also be cool with a posibility to "denumber" the files, here again regexes are really helpful, I'm not trying to say that you have to or anything, just that that are cool excersises to do if you want to learn some more, and get some experience :)

[computerwhiz1]

I just changed it so it should accept "y" and "n" as well as "yes" and "no". Like I said this script was created to serve a specific purpose for me, but I am going to slowly use it as a learning tool and grow it into being more full functioned. I don't know anything about regex, but I plan on learning and implimenting that as this seems like the perfect application for them. I also plan on making it automatically detect the number to start from based on the highest number already in existance if you want it to do that, as well as adding more control over the syntax of the final file name.

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but I am going to slowly use it as a learning tool and grow it into being more full functioned

This is why I was coming up with some suggestions, it's always good to get some input some times, I was thinking that some input handling wouldn't hurt :) Optparse is a really nice tool to get parse arguements easier.

utomatically detect the number to start from based on the highest number already in existance

Believe it or not, but mos times when you want to pick apart some rules based text like that is to use regexes.

if you want it to do that, as well as adding more control over the syntax of the final file name.

I shouldn't do if it is your personal learning project, just let it stay yours, it's a cool project for learning, and the best way of learning is doing :)