Thanks again Justin, ended up with this:
def clean_seperator( self , name ):
"""Replaces seperators within a file name"""
name , ext = os.path.splitext( name )
if ext:
return '.'.join( [ re.sub( r'[^a-zA-Z0-9]+' , self.seperator , name ) ,
ext ] )
else:
return re.sub( r'[^a-zA-Z0-9]+' , self.seperator , name )
much appriciated, I have a couple of issues with doing it that way myself
though, or perhaps it's PEP8 that has more of an issue with it than me...
[1] I'm grabbing the name and extension from a string called name and storing
it in a string called name as well. I've heard different opinions on doing
that but tend to say to myself it's one less string to worry about, once I have
the new name I don't need the old one so to say, as I'm returning a different
representation of the same name I put into the function it makes sense. Keeps
the code cleaner in a way as well to not have multiple names for a name
(newname,thisname,thatname) but I'm quite open for all comments regarding why
not to do this and stick to unique string names in all cases?
[2] I've heard returning the results directly rather than storing something and
then returning that is bad practice but never understood why, for example:
a) (bad?)
def something( path ):
return os.listdir( path )
b) (better?)
def something( path ):
things = os.listdir( path )
return things
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