[Tutor] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Output 'Strings' to directory

[Alan Gauld]

> From: Felisha Lawrence <felisha.lawrence at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Re: Output 'Strings' to directory
> To: Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org>
>
>
> Also,
> I had this code working
>
> import os
>
> path = '/Users/felishalawrence/testswps/vol1'
> for file in os.listdir(path):
>          newFile = file[:file.index("v")]+"v20"
>
>          print newFile
> and now I am getting this error
>
> ValueError: substring not found
>
> I did not change anything

Have you checked that no new files have been created - possibly by your 
code, that don't conform to your expected naming style?

Try putting a 'print file'  before the name modification to see what the 
name that causes the error looks like.

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