Changing file names

[Fredrik Lundh]

Thomas Philips wrote:

> The function glob in module glob will give me a list of all the
> subdirectories, and by looping over this list and repeatedly calling
> glob, I can create lists of files within each directory, which are
> easily edited to create lists of new filenames.
>
> How then can I change the existing filenames to these new filenames?
> What python functions should I be using, and what modules are they
> contained in?

os.rename(oldname, newname)

found under "files and directories" in the library reference:

    http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html

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