NEWbie asks "is Python a good tool for automated file/folder generation?"

[Cameron Laird]

In article <6k6kgukhuk8pfgos97a38h0d4r5jr0u3sr at 4ax.com>,
Unconditional Grace  <UG at LY> wrote:
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>I have a series of scientific image files numbering, say, 1000, which
>are really 100 groups, each group with its own identical string, but
>appended with a different number from _01 to _10, or possibly some
>other string.  The end enumeration is ALWAYS differentiated from the
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>I've never used Python, and I'm wondering if you, collectively, think
>that Python is a good language to do this.  While it seems like Python
Python's an absolutely fine language for this.
No broadly-popular language will do the job
much better, and it certainly would be consider-
ably harder in several.
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