[Tutor] New to Python..Need help

[Joel Goldstick]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Felisha Lawrence
<felisha.lawrence at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a question regarding strings in python. I have a directory on my
> MacBook Bro of about 13 files. I need to alter the file endings in that
> directory. The files are on the order of
> 'swp.113006004000_KLWX_0.0.5_PPI_v2','swp.113006004000_KLWX_0.0.5_PPI_v3'. I
> need to remove the characters after the 'v' and replace with v20. All of the
> endings of the files are sequential _v2, _v3,_v4, _v5. I need all of these
> characters to be the same (i.e. v20). I would like to know which modules are
> best to use, and how to use loops to alter them. Any help you can provide
> would be great.
>
>
Check out the documentation for os.walk and os.rename.  The first to
collect you filenames, and the second to rename them.

> Thanks,
> Felisha Lawrence
>
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