Data Structure
Networking
RDBMS
Operating System
Java
MS Excel
iOS
HTML
CSS
Android
Python
C Programming
C++
C#
MongoDB
MySQL
Javascript
PHP
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Mathematics
English
Economics
Psychology
Social Studies
Fashion Studies
Legal Studies
- Selected Reading
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
- Developer's Best Practices
- Questions and Answers
- Effective Resume Writing
- HR Interview Questions
- Computer Glossary
- Who is Who
Junk File Organizer in Python?
This might seem very useful for a lazy python programmer who keeps most of the files and folders at one location and sometimes at confused what all files are there and surely he is too lazy to do it manually. So below is a python program to organize or simplify everything in appropriate folder in the single go and remove empty directories.
So we have a directory path where lots of files of different types are present (like below) and our program we segregate each file type into their respective folders (like below).
Input folder structure
Desired Output
First create different folders based on types of files we are going to segregate into different folders:
DIRECTORIES = {
"HTML": [".html5", ".html", ".htm", ".xhtml"],
"IMAGES": [".jpeg", ".jpg", ".tiff", ".gif", ".bmp", ".png", ".bpg", "svg",
".heif", ".psd"],
"VIDEOS": [".avi", ".flv", ".wmv", ".mov", ".mp4", ".webm", ".vob", ".mng",
".qt", ".mpg", ".mpeg", ".3gp"],
"DOCUMENTS": [".oxps", ".epub", ".pages", ".docx", ".doc", ".fdf", ".ods",
".odt", ".pwi", ".xsn", ".xps", ".dotx", ".docm", ".dox",
".rvg", ".rtf", ".rtfd", ".wpd", ".xls", ".xlsx", ".ppt",
"pptx"],
"ARCHIVES": [".a", ".ar", ".cpio", ".iso", ".tar", ".gz", ".rz", ".7z",
".dmg", ".rar", ".xar", ".zip"],
"AUDIO": [".aac", ".aa", ".aac", ".dvf", ".m4a", ".m4b", ".m4p", ".mp3",
".msv", "ogg", "oga", ".raw", ".vox", ".wav", ".wma"],
"PLAINTEXT": [".txt", ".in", ".out"],
"PDF": [".pdf"],
"PYTHON": [".py"],
"XML": [".xml"],
"EXE": [".exe"],
"SHELL": [".sh"]
}Secondly, create the map of file type into their respective folders:
FILE_FORMATS = {file_format: directory
for directory, file_formats in DIRECTORIES.items()
for file_format in file_formats}
def organise_folder():
for entry in os.scandir():
if entry.is_dir():
continue
file_path = Path(entry)
file_format = file_path.suffix.lower()
if file_format in FILE_FORMATS:
directory_path = Path(FILE_FORMATS[file_format])
directory_path.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
file_path.rename(directory_path.joinpath(file_path))
try:
os.mkdir("OTHER-FILES")
except:
pass
for dir in os.scandir():
try:
if dir.is_dir():
os.rmdir(dir)
else:
os.rename(os.getcwd() + '/' + str(Path(dir)), os.getcwd() + '/OTHER-FILES/' + str(Path(dir)))
except:
passFinal script:
That’s it, below is our final script to filter file types into their respective folders.
#Python Lazy Junk Files Organizer
#Import important libraries
import os
from pathlib import Path
#
DIRECTORIES = {
"HTML": [".html5", ".html", ".htm", ".xhtml"],
"IMAGES": [".jpeg", ".jpg", ".tiff", ".gif", ".bmp", ".png", ".bpg", "svg",
".heif", ".psd"],
"VIDEOS": [".avi", ".flv", ".wmv", ".mov", ".mp4", ".webm", ".vob", ".mng",
".qt", ".mpg", ".mpeg", ".3gp"],
"DOCUMENTS": [".oxps", ".epub", ".pages", ".docx", ".doc", ".fdf", ".ods",
".odt", ".pwi", ".xsn", ".xps", ".dotx", ".docm", ".dox",
".rvg", ".rtf", ".rtfd", ".wpd", ".xls", ".xlsx", ".ppt",
"pptx"],
"ARCHIVES": [".a", ".ar", ".cpio", ".iso", ".tar", ".gz", ".rz", ".7z",
".dmg", ".rar", ".xar", ".zip"],
"AUDIO": [".aac", ".aa", ".aac", ".dvf", ".m4a", ".m4b", ".m4p", ".mp3",
".msv", "ogg", "oga", ".raw", ".vox", ".wav", ".wma"],
"PLAINTEXT": [".txt", ".in", ".out"],
"PDF": [".pdf"],
"PYTHON": [".py"],
"XML": [".xml"],
"EXE": [".exe"],
"SHELL": [".sh"]
}
FILE_FORMATS = {file_format: directory
for directory, file_formats in DIRECTORIES.items()
for file_format in file_formats}
def organise_folder():
for entry in os.scandir():
if entry.is_dir():
continue
file_path = Path(entry)
file_format = file_path.suffix.lower()
if file_format in FILE_FORMATS:
directory_path = Path(FILE_FORMATS[file_format])
directory_path.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
file_path.rename(directory_path.joinpath(file_path))
try:
os.mkdir("OTHER-FILES")
except:
pass
for dir in os.scandir():
try:
if dir.is_dir():
os.rmdir(dir)
else:
os.rename(os.getcwd() + '/' + str(Path(dir)), os.getcwd() + '/OTHER-FILES/' + str(Path(dir)))
except:
pass
if __name__ == "__main__":
organise_folder()After running above script from a particular directory path, we’ll get output something like,
Output
391 Views
