On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 08:44:05AM -0700, hokiegal99 wrote:
>  Erik Max Francis <max@[...].com> wrote in message news:<3F10BABB.D548961B@[...].com>...
>  > hokiegal99 wrote:
>  > 
>  > > This script works as I expect, except for the last section. I want the
>  > > last section to actually remove all spaces from the front and/or end
>  > > of
>  > > filenames. For example, a file that was named "  test  " would be
>  > > renamed "test" (the 2 spaces before and after the filename removed).
>  > > Any
>  > > suggestions on how to do this?
>  > 
>  > That's what the .strip method, which is what you're using, does.  If
>  > it's not working for you you're doing something else wrong.
>  
>  for root, dirs, files in os.walk('/home/rbt/scripts'):
>       for file in files:
>           fname = (file)
>           fname = fname.strip( )
>  print fname
>  
>  When I print fname, it prints the filenames w/o spaces (a file named "
>  test " looks like "test"), but when I ls the actual files in the
>  directory they still contain spaces at both ends. That's what I don't
>  understand. It seems that .strip is ready to remove the spaces, but
>  that it needs one more step to actually do so. Any ideas?

Surely you need to actually rename the file:
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk('/home/rbt/scripts'):
        for name in files:
            newname = name.strip()
            if newname != name: os.rename(name, newname)

Jeff

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