Quickie little script to move and automatically alphabetize incoming files (in this case, comics, but this works equally as well for any files)

Author: Leonard Lin

alphabetize_incoming_comics.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import os, re, shutil
+
+destination_root = '/Volumes/Drobo/_incoming/_comics/_alpha/'
+path = os.getcwd()
+
+for root, dirs, files in os.walk(os.getcwd()):
+  for file in files:
+    firstletter = file[0].upper()
+
+    # Numbers
+    if re.search("[0-9]", firstletter):
+      firstletter = "0-9"
+
+    source = os.path.join(root, file)
+    destination = os.path.join(destination_root, firstletter, file)
+    try:
+      # print "MOVING", source, "TO", destination
+      print " MOVE", file
+      print "   TO", os.path.join(destination_root, firstletter)
+      shutil.move(source, destination)
+      print " DONE"
+      print
+    except IOError:
+      print "ERROR Couldn't move", source
+      print "                 to", destination
+      print