Help deleting numbers from file names

[Shane]

import os
def rename_files():
# Get file names
    file_list= os.listdir(r"file")
    #print(file_list)
    saved_path=os.getcwd()
    print("Current Working Directory Is " +saved_path)
    os.chdir(r"file")
# Rename files
    for file_name in file_list:
          os.rename(file_name, file_name.translate(None, '0123456789'))
    os.chdir(saved_path)

rename_files()

[j.crater]

It will be very helpful if you can ask specifically what trouble you are having with the code. You can also include the full error message in error tags.

[Shane]

The goal is deleting numbers from file names.

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\laris\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\photofile.py", line 14, in <module>
    rename_files()
  File "C:\Users\laris\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\photofile.py", line 11, in rename_files
    os.rename(file_name, file_name.translate(None, '0123456789'))
TypeError: translate() takes exactly one argument (2 given)

[Gribouillis]

Use re.sub(r'[0-9]', '', file_name) instead of file_name.translate()

[snippsat]

Translate as changed in Python 3,so now it only take one argument(translation table).
Can use it like this or regex as Grib posted.

>>> s = 'fo34o454343bar5345.py'
>>> s.translate({ord(c):'' for c in "1234567890"})
'foobar.py'

The trix is also to set path,then change to that path.
Then dos not need to use os.path.join() to get absolute path,
which is needed if script run a other folder than files to be renamed.

import os

path = r'C:\1\sp'
file_list = os.listdir(path)
os.chdir(path)
for file_name in file_list:
    print(file_name)
    os.rename(file_name, file_name.translate({ord(c):'' for c in "1234567890"}))

Output:
# Before
Makefile
modu3424le.py
Pip4345435ile
Pip535345fle.lock

# After
Makefile
module.py
Pipfle.lock
Pipile 

[wavic]

In[1]: table = {ord(str(num)): None for num in range(10)}

In[2]: table
Out[2]: 
{48: None,
 49: None,
 50: None,
 51: None,
 52: None,
 53: None,
 54: None,
 55: None,
 56: None,
 57: None}

In[3]: "001file_name.txt".translate(table)
Out[3]: 'file_name.txt'

To create this table you can use str.maketrans method too.

table = str.maketrans('', '', '0123456789') # the characters from the third argument will be mapped to None

You get the same table:

{48: None,
 49: None,
 50: None,
 51: None,
 52: None,
 53: None,
 54: None,
 55: None,
 56: None,
 57: None}

print(str.maketrans.__doc__)

Output:
Return a translation table usable for str.translate().

If there is only one argument, it must be a dictionary mapping Unicode
ordinals (integers) or characters to Unicode ordinals, strings or None.
Character keys will be then converted to ordinals.
If there are two arguments, they must be strings of equal length, and
in the resulting dictionary, each character in x will be mapped to the
character at the same position in y. If there is a third argument, it
must be a string, whose characters will be mapped to None in the result.