Newbie Question: Shell-like Scripting in Python?

[Mark McEahern]

[Scott Meyers]
> So here's my question: will Python let me do that?

Yes.

> I'm not asking about how
> powerful the language is -- I know I can do anything with it.  But suppose
> I want to rename files matching foo.* to be bar.*.  Ideally, I'd
> like to be
> able to say something like this:
>
>   rename foo.* bar.*

import glob
import os
for oldfile in glob.glob("foo.*"):
    newfile = oldfile.replace("foo", "bar")
    os.rename(oldfile, newfile)

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