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Python Python for File Systems Manipulation Consistency

Nikolay Nogin
Nikolay Nogin
22,154 Points
Posted by Nikolay Nogin
Nikolay Nogin
22,154 Points

Help! ('posix.DirEntry' object has no attribute 'startswith' )

I've got this AttributeError: 'posix.DirEntry' object has no attribute 'startswith'. I'm on windows. And I only can see that it's something with OS on the server....

consistency.py 
import os

# Filenames consist of a username (alphanumeric, 3-12 characters)
# and a date (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day),
# and an extension. They should end up in the format
# year-month-day-username.extension.

# Example: kennethlove2-2012-04-29.txt becomes 2012-04-29-kennethlove2.txt

def cleanup(path):
    files = list(os.scandir(path))
    for item in files:
            filename, file_extension = os.path.splitext(os.path.abspath(item))
            item1 = item.name.replace(file_extension, '').split('-')
            item1 = item1[1]+'-'+item1[2]+'-'+item1[3]+'-'+item1[0]+file_extension
            os.renames(item, item1)

1 Answer

Nikolay Nogin
Nikolay Nogin
22,154 Points
Nikolay Nogin
Nikolay Nogin
22,154 Points

If somebody is interested, I replaced a couple of lines and it passed! 

def cleanup(path):
    files = os.listdir(path)
    for item in files:
            file_extension = '.'+ item.split('.')[1]
            item1 = item.replace(file_extension, '').split('-')
            item1 = item1[1]+'-'+item1[2]+'-'+item1[3]+'-'+item1[0]+file_extension
            os.rename(os.path.join(path, item), os.path.join(path, item1))