So, I had a pack of National Geographic TV Episodes — but each one is packaged in little rar packs. In general I have to unrar the files, and remove the pieces. But since there was a folder of like 100 of these episodes I wrote a python script to do it for me! (:
It’s very rudimentary, and probably mostly inefficient –> for example, I didn’t know if there was ‘contains’ method so I just run through a for loop to find the right file. (:
This will remove everything but the avi file that remains once the unrarring is complete. a real time saver for me! (:
You will need this python module to use winrar: it’s by ‘chilkat’ –> http://www.example-code.com/python/rar_unrar.asp
Here it is:
import sys
import os
import chilkat
rar = chilkat.CkRar()
dirs = os.listdir('./')
for dir in dirs:
if (dir.find("National") >=0):
print dir+"\n\n"
fileList = os.listdir(dir)
for possibleMatch in fileList:
if (possibleMatch.find(".rar") >= 0):
rarFile = possibleMatch
success = rar.Open(dir + "/" + rarFile)
if (success != True):
print rar.lastErrorText()
sys.exit()
else:
print "opened"
success = rar.Unrar(dir+"/")
if (success != True):
print rar.lastErrorText()
else:
print "Success."
print "\n\n"+dir+"\n\n"
path = "C:\\National.Geographic.Pack\\"+dir
samplePath = path+"\\Sample\\"
sampleAvi = os.listdir(samplePath)
os.remove(samplePath+sampleAvi[0])
os.rmdir(samplePath)
for file in os.listdir(dir):
if (file.find(".avi") < 0):
if(os.path.isdir(file)):
os.rmdir(file)
else:
try:
os.remove(path+"\\"+file)
except OSError:
print "OS Error"
else:
print "good"
I also wrote another one which would then take the period-explosion of names from downloads and rename it to something a little more human readable/nicer looking:
import sys
import os
dirs = os.listdir('./')
for dir in dirs:
if (dir.find("National") >=0):
asdf = dir.split('.')
length = len(asdf)
new = ''
for x in asdf[2:length-2]:
if (x.find("WS") < 0):
new+=x+" "
print new
os.rename(dir,new)
