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• new -- This is the new name of the file or directory.It can even include a file to a directory, or a whole tree of
directories, that do not exist.
Return Value
This method does not return any value.
Example
The following example shows the usage of renames() method.
# !/usr/bin/python
import os, sys
print "Current directory is: %s" %os.getcwd()
# listing directories
print "The dir is: %s"%os.listdir(os.getcwd())
# renaming file "aa1.txt"
os.renames("aa1.txt","newdir/aanew.txt")
print "Successfully renamed."
# listing directories after renaming and moving "aa1.txt"
print "The dir is: %s" %os.listdir(os.getcwd())
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:
Current directory is: /tmp
The dir is:
[ 'a1.txt','resume.doc','a3.py','aa1.txt','Administrator','amrood.admin' ]
Successfully renamed.
The dir is:
[ 'a1.txt','resume.doc','a3.py','Administrator','amrood.admin' ]
The file aa1.txt is not visible here, as it is been moved to newdir and renamed as aanew.txt. The
directory newdir and its contents are shown below:
[ 'aanew.txt' ]
os.rmdir(path)
Description
The method rmdir() removes the directory path. It works only when the directory is empty, else OSErroris raised.
Syntax
Following is the syntax for rmdir() method:
os.rmdir(path)
Parameters
• path -- This is the path of the directory, which needs to be removed.
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