I needed to remove the extensions from the filenames in an edl today, so I wrote this right quick. I’m sure some of you out there will need it too or at the very least a template to do something more complicated. It’s written for Python 2.6 and up.
import os
import sys
import re
import string
###v3 changed to work only on lines that start with 00
import re
def process_text(input_filename, output_filename):
"""Removes extra characters from filenames in the input file and writes the processed text to the output file."""
with open(input_filename, 'r') as input_file: # Open input file separately
with open(output_filename, 'w') as output_file: # Open output file separately
for line in input_file:
if line.startswith("00"):
filename = line.split()[1]
#print(filename)
short_filename = filename.split('.')[0]
print(short_filename)
line = line.replace(filename, short_filename)
output_file.write(line)
if __name__ == "__main__":
input_filename = sys.argv[1] # grabs file from cmd line
output_filename = input_filename.split('.')[0] + "_cleaned.edl" # Use string concatenation for Python 2.6
process_text(input_filename, output_filename)
print("File processed successfully! Output saved to: %s" % output_filename) # Use %-formatting for Python 2.6Happy Grading,
JD
