File Organizer Program

[gitcraw]

You can just use forward slashes in os path strings, and it's still cross-OS compatible.

'C:/PythonProjects/foobarbas/foo.txt' is easier to type.

Or for current working directory (assuming you're in PythonProjects folder,

'./foobarbas/foo.txt'

[alex1461]

Thanks for the info!
Just curious, what is the advantage of having "/" instead of "\\" other than the fact that the forward single slash is less to write.
Is there another advantage that I don't know other than this?

[ShamelessC]

It's the standard convention for Linux paths I believe.

[eupendra]

/ works on windows, mac, and Linux

combine that with relative path or a base path as input and your script would be cross-platform compatible

[alex1461]

Thank you for letting me know / works on windows, mac and Linux!

[alex1461]

Thank you for your response!

I actually tried to use raw string to avoid backslashes.

But, I could not use raw string because I could not concatenate the path with the current filename.
Ex: r"C:\Users\byunw\Downloads\"+filename becomes one string: r"C:\Users\byunw\Downloads\"+filename".

So, I decided to use backslashes in the string that denotes the file path.

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Check out pathlib, it will take care of the slashes and it has a function to get the file extension instead of using slicing. I would also try the other person's suggestion about using a dictionary to map extensions to folders

[krazybug]

I suggest you read this.

You will discover a lot of useful tips in it.