I have multiple video files in a directory. Their name contains multiple useless underscores(_).
Ex: How___are_you__doing.
I want to change it to: How are you doing.
I have tried few python codes but couldn't get it right, I am novice programmer.
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Show us what you have attempted so far,Booboo– Booboo2020-11-08 15:38:09 +00:00Commented Nov 8, 2020 at 15:38
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1To clarify, you're trying to rename files by replacing underscores in their file names with spaces, correct?Andrew Fan– Andrew Fan2020-11-08 17:05:01 +00:00Commented Nov 8, 2020 at 17:05
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What about:
import re
mytitle = "How___are_you__doing."
re.sub("[_]+"," ", mytitle)
Output:
How are you doing.
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An alternative with replace and join:
text = "How___are_you__doing."
text = text.replace("_", " ")
text = ' '.join(text.split())
Output:
How are you doing.
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Ok Guys, I finally made it worked. I found this code on GeeksForGeeks, I modified it a little bit to get done what I wanted.
import os
def main():
path="C:/Users/TP/Desktop/sample/Travel/west bengal/bishnupur/" //paste your dir path here
for filename in os.listdir(path):
my_source =path + filename
my_dest = filename.rename('_',' ')
my_dest =path + my_dest
os.rename(my_source, my_dest)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
But It replaced continuous underscores with continuous whitespaces. I am yet to figure out that.
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Matthew King
ah well, maybe the answer is right in front of you :)