[Tutor] renaming files within a directory

[Alan Gauld]

<davidwilson at Safe-mail.net> wrote

> The problem is that for example the file Flag_of_the_United_States.svg 
> when I use the strip('.svg') it is returned as Flag_of_the_United_State

Thats because strip removes all of the characters in the given string.

You would probably be better removing the extension using the 
os.path.splitext() function.

> Also, How do I remove 'Flag_of', 'Flag_of_the_' 

You could try replacing with a null string. Do the second one first 
followed by the first if necessary, using the string.replace() method.

HTH,


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