Those are my exercises. Do not use them because this code is ugly and not working. If you want to work with paths using wildcards please use pythons glob module.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os import shutil import re import sys class MSBatch: def __init__(self): self._statistics = [] def _updateStats(self, stat): self._statistics.append(stat) def getStats(self): return self._statistics def printStats(self): for i in self._statistics: print i def clearStats(self): self._statistics = [] def targetCompile(self, path, mask): if os.path.isdir(path): dir = path file = '' else: dir, file = os.path.split(path) if mask == '' or mask == '*' or mask == '*.*': return path while 1: if mask != mask.replace('**', '*'): mask = mask.replace('**', '*') else: break mask = mask.replace('*?', file[mask.find('*?'):], 1) fsb, fse = os.path.splitext(file) msb, mse = os.path.splitext(mask) file = ''.join([ self._tcrec(fsb, msb), self._tcrec(fse, mse) ]) #return '/'.join([dir, file]) return file ###/targetMaskCompile def _tcrec(self, f, m, fi = 0, mi = 0, b = ''): if fi > len(f) - 1: if mi > len(m) - 1: return b else: if m[mi] != '?' and m[mi] != '*': return self._tcrec(f, m, fi, mi + 1, b + m[mi]) else: return self._tcrec(f, m, fi, mi + 1, b) elif mi > len(m) - 1: return b #if name longer than mask, strip name '''if fi > len(f) - 1: return b else: return self._tcrec(f, m, fi + 1, mi, b + f[fi])''' else: if m[mi] == '?': return self._tcrec(f, m, fi + 1, mi + 1, b + f[fi]) elif m[mi] == '*': if mi < len(m) - 1: if m[mi + 1] == f[fi]: return self._tcrec(f, m, fi, mi + 1, b) return self._tcrec(f, m, fi + 1, mi, b + f[fi]) elif m[mi] == f[fi]: return self._tcrec(f, m, fi + 1, mi + 1, b + f[fi]) else: return self._tcrec(f, m, fi + 1, mi + 1, b + m[mi]) ###/_tcrec def _isInMask(self, filename, mask): tmp = mask.split('.') i = 0; while i < len(tmp): tmp[i] = re.escape(tmp[i]) tmp[i] = tmp[i].replace('\*', '.*').replace('\?', '.') i += 1 if re.compile('^' + ('\\.'.join(tmp)) + '$', re.I).match(filename) != None: return True else: return False def _createFilesList(self, path, mask): try: fileList = [] for f in os.listdir(path): if not os.path.isdir(path + '/' + f): if self._isInMask(f, mask): fileList.append(f) return fileList except: self._updateStats('Cannot read dir.') return False def _createPathAndMask(self, path): path = os.path.normpath(path) path_mask = [] if os.path.isdir(path): path_mask.append(path) path_mask.append('*') else: path_mask = os.path.split(path) return path_mask ###/_createPathAndMask def copy(self, files, target): fpath, fmask = self._createPathAndMask(files) tpath, tmask = self._createPathAndMask(target) if not os.path.isdir(fpath): self._updateStats('Source dir not exists!') return False c = 0 for f in self._createFilesList(fpath, fmask): try: tmpf = os.path.normpath(fpath + '/' + f) tmpt = os.path.normpath(tpath + '/' + self.targetCompile(f, tmask)) shutil.copy(tmpf, tmpt) self._updateStats(tmpf) c += 1 except: self._updateStats('Cannot copy file ' + f) self._updateStats('%s file(s) copied!' % c) def delete(self, files): path_mask = self._createPathAndMask(files) if not os.path.isdir(path_mask[0]): self._updateStats('Source dir not exists!') return False c = 0 for f in self._createFilesList(path_mask[0], path_mask[1]): try: tmpf = os.path.normpath(path_mask[0] + '/' + f) os.remove(tmpf) self._updateStats(tmpf) c += 1 except: self._updateStats('Cannot copy file ' + f) self._updateStats('%s file(s) deleted!' % c) ###/delete def ren(self, files, target): fpath, fmask = self._createPathAndMask(files) tpath, tmask = self._createPathAndMask(target) if tpath != '': #ren cannot work in other dir than source self._updateStats('Ivalid syntax!') self._updateStats('%s file(s) renamed!' % 0) return False if not os.path.isdir(fpath): self._updateStats('Source dir not exists!') return False c = 0 for f in self._createFilesList(fpath, fmask): try: tmpf = os.path.normpath(fpath + '/' + f) tmpt = os.path.normpath(fpath + '/' + self.targetCompile(f, tmask)) os.rename(tmpf, tmpt) self._updateStats(tmpf) c += 1 except: self._updateStats('Cannot rename file ' + f) self._updateStats('%s file(s) renamed!' % c) ###/ren def move(self, files, target): """move file(s)""" """i like the way dos move works so why reinvent wheel?""" try: os.system('move "%s" "%s"' % ( os.path.normpath(files), os.path.normpath(target) )) except: print 'Cannot move file!' def md(self, path): print 'Use os.mkdir(path) instead' return False def rmdir(self): print 'Use os.rmdir(path) instead!' return False if __name__ == "__main__": print """ dos = MSBatch() dos.copy('tmp3/*.bak', 'tmp3/*.dat') dos.delete('tmp2/*2*.*') dos.ren('tmp3/Kopia (3) a.f', 'Ko*i4.mxt') d.printStats() """