renaming.py

import glob, os
from constants import *

import zipfile


def zipFile(path_to_zip_file, directory_to_extract_to):
    zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile(path_to_zip_file, 'r')
    zip_ref.extractall(directory_to_extract_to)
    zip_ref.close()


def rename(dir, pattern, titlePattern):
    for pathAndFilename in glob.iglob(os.path.join(dir, pattern)):
        title, ext = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(pathAndFilename))
        title = title[:-14] + title[-7:]
        os.rename(pathAndFilename,
                  os.path.join(dir, titlePattern % title))

def rename2016Before(dir, pattern, titlePattern):
    for pathAndFilename in glob.iglob(os.path.join(dir, pattern)):
        title, ext = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(pathAndFilename))
        os.rename(pathAndFilename,
                  os.path.join(dir, titlePattern % title))