Josep M. Fontana wrote:
Sorry about the top-posting. Sometimes it seems that a little
top-posting might make things easier (I hate to have to go through
long quotes) but you are totally right, netiquette is netiquette.
To all the people who say "Never top-post", I say never say never --
there
Josep M. Fontana wrote:
The only time year is bound is in the previous loop, as I said. It's the
line that goes:
name, year = line.strip.
So year is whatever it was the last time through that loop.
OK, this makes sense. Indeed that is the value in the last entry for
the dictionary. Th
> The only time year is bound is in the previous loop, as I said. It's the
> line that goes:
> name, year = line.strip.
>
> So year is whatever it was the last time through that loop.
OK, this makes sense. Indeed that is the value in the last entry for
the dictionary. Thanks a lot again.
On 11/1/2010 1:53 PM, Josep M. Fontana wrote:
Hi Dave,
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
(You top-posted, so I had to remove the out-of-order earlier portion.)
I've not tried to run the code, but I think I can see the problem. Since
you never assign 'year' inside the loop(s)
Hi Dave,
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> (You top-posted, so I had to remove the out-of-order earlier portion.)
>
> I've not tried to run the code, but I think I can see the problem. Since
> you never assign 'year' inside the loop(s), it's always the same. And it's
> whatev
On 11/1/2010 8:48 AM, Josep M. Fontana wrote:
Thanks a lot Dave and Joel,
You call re.sub(), but don't do anything with the result.
Where do you call os.rename() ?
Yes, indeed, as you suggested what was missing was the use of
os.rename() to apply the substitution to the actual file names. I
Thanks a lot Dave and Joel,
> You call re.sub(), but don't do anything with the result.
>
> Where do you call os.rename() ?
Yes, indeed, as you suggested what was missing was the use of
os.rename() to apply the substitution to the actual file names. I
incorporated that and I changed the loop th
On 2:59 PM, Josep M. Fontana wrote:
Hi,
As I said in another message with the heading "Using contents of a
document to change file names", I'm trying to learn Python "by doing"
and I was working on a little project where I had to change the names
I run this and I don't get any errors. The name
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Josep M. Fontana wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I said in another message with the heading "Using contents of a
> document to change file names", I'm trying to learn Python "by doing"
> and I was working on a little project where I had to change the names
> of the files in a
