I am trying to write code in python to rename a file by using NAME_COMPUTERNAME_ and then the current date.
I have the following code:
PCname=socket.gethostname()
date_now = datetime.now().strftime'%d%m%Y')
file_one = "C:\\Reports\\Report.pdf"
file_two = 'C:\\Reports\\VSR_(PCname)_{}.pdf'.format(date_now)
os.rename(file_one, file_two)
I can rename the file with just VSR_14092018.pdf
but I would like to include the computername also after VSR in the file's name.
Thanks
Replace file_two with below code
from datetime import datetime
date_now=datetime.strftime(datetime.now(),'%d%m%Y')
PCname='my_host'
file_two = 'C:\\Reports\\VSR_{}_{}.pdf'.format(PCname,date_now)
In your code, it does not recognize PCname (also note that you should write variable names lower case) as a the variable from above. You can try this:
file_two = r'C:\\Reports\\VSR_({})_{}.pdf'.format(PCname, date_now)
import os
import socket
date = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%d%m%Y")
file_one = "C:\Reports\Report.pdf"
file_two = 'C:\\Reports\\VSR_{}_{}.pdf'.format(socket.gethostname(),date_now)
os.rename(file_one, file_two)
in file_two variable you need to pass the hostname like above.
