How can I search folders and files to make sure they follow the correct naming convention?-CodePudding

I need to search a folder, it's files and any following subdirectory to make sure it follows a certain naming convention. If any of the folders/files do not follow it, I would need to print it out.

foo
|
------folder1
|        |
|         -----correctly_named
|
-------foLDER2
          |
          -----also_correct
          ----inCORRECT!file

how would I best do this? I'm thinking a for loop that searches the folder with path os.listdir() but not sure if that would be the best route.

CodePudding user response：

When it comes to file system operations, pathlib module takes the lead.

from pathlib import Path

def CheckName(dir: Path) -> None:
    for item in dir.iterdir():
        # Checking the name here, it may be file or folder...
        # item.name gives a string containing only name, excluding its directory

        if item.is_dir():
            # Checking name of subfolders items recursively...
            CheckName(item)

CodePudding user response：

Your best bet would be to use the os library with the dirlist function to access all the folders and files.

I would implement a recursive function starting in the folder (path) you want to start the analysis from, and enter the function again for each folder you encounter. If it finds a file then analyze if it follows the naming convention.