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I have thousands of files to be renamed in several subfolders in the main folder. The existing file name, path, and the new file name are available in an excel file. I have been using Excel VBA to do this earlier and now I am into Python and would like to accomplish this task using Python.

I am looking for a solution as below:

  1. Renaming the files in the same place

  2. Copying the files with folders to a new location and rename there to preserver the originals.

Please provide your valuable inputs.

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  • What have you tried so far? You should probably take a look at os, glob and shutil modules, they have all the necessary functionality. Commented Dec 22, 2020 at 7:15
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    pathlib is better as it intuitively incorporates the modules mentioned above Commented Dec 22, 2020 at 7:18
  • If you have working VBA code, a starting point can be just rewriting that code with Python commands. If that gives you trouble, share your code here and get some answers. Commented Dec 22, 2020 at 7:29
  • You can check these out renaming and copying Commented Dec 22, 2020 at 9:15
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