I haven't used regex a lot and I needed to set up a script that can gather a list of file paths that should adhere to a strict formatting convention, so I thought that sounded like a good opportunity to use them.
To explain a bit, there's a set of sequence folders inside a root folder, and in those sequences is a set of scene folders. In those is a set of constant named folders, the relevant one being "AEP Files". Then in there is a set of after effects files, of which I want to get the highest numbered version which is denoted but _v##.aep at the end of the file. A sample path might look like this:
P:\ProjectName\Scenes\e10_q04\e10_q04_s12\AEP Files\proj_e10_q04_s12_v04.aep
I'm particularly interested to know
- If I'm using regex correctly,
- Whether I should use something other than
if re.match(...)? - Whether I could make it more efficient (particularly the list comprehensions); and
- Given the complexity, how is the current readability?
I had ideas on more efficiency but they involved collapsing list comprehensions down and I thought that would make an unreadable mess, so I opted not to. Any other feedback you want to give is also welcome!
import os
import re
root = r'P:\ProjectName\Scenes'
IGNORE = re.IGNORECASE
folders = [os.path.join(root, f) for f in os.listdir(root)
if re.match(r'e\d*q\d*', f, IGNORE)]
folders.sort()
scene_folders = [os.path.join(folder, f) for folder in folders
for f in os.listdir(folder)
if re.match(r'e\d*_q\d*_s\d*', f, IGNORE)]
scene_folders.sort()
scenes = []
missing_scenes = []
for folder in scene_folders:
matches = [re.match(r'proj_q\d*_s\d*_v(\d*)\.aep', f, IGNORE)
for f in os.listdir(os.path.join(folder, "AEP Files"))
if re.match(r'proj_q\d*_s\d*_v(\d*)\.aep', f, IGNORE)]
matches = [(match.group(), match.groups()[0]) for match in matches]
if matches:
scenes.append(os.path.join(folder, sorted(matches)[-1][0]))
else:
missing_scenes.append(folder)
globinstead of manipulating directories. Would make it easier and shorter. I.e. first select all{root}/*/*/*/*.aepfiles, then from this you can figure out which folders contain *.aep files, diff it with the list of all folders - and you get the missing scenes. \$\endgroup\$glob. I'm going to look it up now, but if you want to write an answer about it in the mean time (even if it's short) please do. \$\endgroup\$globwill only match exact characters. \$\endgroup\$