Renaming and Deleting Files in Python: File Manipulation

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Python os module provides methods that help you perform file-processing operations, such as renaming and deleting files.

To use this module, you need to import it first and then you can call any related functions.

The rename() method takes two arguments, the current filename and the new filename.

os.rename(current_file_name, new_file_name)

Following is an example to rename an existing file "test1.txt" to "test2.txt" −

#!/usr/bin/python3 import os # Rename a file from test1.txt to test2.txt os.rename( "test1.txt", "test2.txt" )

You can use the remove() method to delete files by supplying the name of the file to be deleted as the argument.

os.remove(file_name)

Following is an example to delete an existing file "test2.txt" −

#!/usr/bin/python3 import os # Delete file test2.txt os.remove("text2.txt")

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