[kwlug-disc] Fwd: Regular Expression to Match Movie Titles and Year and Ignore the rest.

[Jason Eckert]

If you're using Python, you could just use regular expressions to provide
for the new filename.
For example,

pattern =
r"^([A-Za-z0-9]+(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)*)\.(\d{4})\..*?(\d+p)\..*\.mp4$"
replacement = r"\1 \2-\3.mp4"

You'd have to import re and os, of course - but then you could use a for
loop to process each file.
For example (keeping it just to mp4s for simplicity):

def rename_movie_files(file_list):
    for filename in file_list:
        if re.match(pattern, filename):
            new_filename = re.sub(pattern, replacement, filename)
            os.rename(filename, new_filename)

movie_files = [
    "Zero.Dark.Thirty.2012.720p.BrRip.x264.BOKUTOX.YIFY.mp4",
    "The.Dark.Knight.2008.1080p.BluRay.x264.YIFY.mp4",
    "Inception.2010.720p.BluRay.x264.YIFY.mp4"
]

rename_movie_files(movie_files)

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 at 07:42, Ronald Barnes via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> John Driezen wrote on 2025-01-01 01:25:
>
> > newfile = movietitle+" ("+year+")-"+resolution+"."+ext
>
> You may be easier for legibility / maintenance to use "f-strings" for
> this formatting & concatenating, à la:
>
>  > newfile = f"{movietitle} ({year})-{resolution}.{ext}"
>
>
>
> Just a thought...
>
>
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