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File sorting by user-chosen category - Bachelar - Aug-28-2021
Hi, y'all!
What I want to do is to sort epub files into category-based folders, I've got multiple categories and figured out a separator I'll put into every filename (cumbersome, yes, but I'll deal with that later). I've managed to figure out how to do it the crude way (see attached code). I know it could be done waaay better, because it's sloppy (and not very pythony). Furthermore, I'd love the script to auto-search the „category” (a tag) within the filename and create folder by itself.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
homedir = os.path.expanduser("~")
path = os.path.join(homedir, 'OneDrive/PC/downloads')
dst = os.path.join(homedir, 'OneDrive/Philosophy')
files = os.listdir(path)
increment = 0
for file in files:
name, ext = os.path.splitext(file)
if fnmatch.fnmatchcase(file, '*; Philosophy.*'):
if os.path.exists(dst) is True:
while os.path.exists(dst+'/'+f'{name}{ext}'):
if isinstance(increment, str):
increment = -1
increment += 1
try:
os.rename(dst+'/'+file, dst+'/'+f'{name}_{increment}{ext}')
return False
except Exception:
return True
else:
os.makedirs(dst)
shutil.move(os.path.join(path, file), dst)