Python filename change
Question: I have a number of videos in a directory on my Mac that all have a specific
string in the file name that I want to remove, but I want to keep the rest of
the file name as it is. I'm running this python script from terminal.

I have this syntax but it doesn't seem to work. Is it practical to use the
following? It seems to simple to be the best way to do this sort of thing
which is why I don't think it works.

    
    
    from os import rename, listdir
    
    text = "Some text I want to remove from file name"
    files = listdir("/Users/Admin/Desktop/Dir_of_videos/")
    
    for x in files:
        if text in files:
            os.rename(files, files.replace(text, ""))
    


Answer: the problem is that you get incomplete paths when you are using `listdir`,
basically, it returns only the files in the directory without the prepending
path to the directory

this should do the job:

    
    
    import os
    
    in_dir = './test'
    remove = 'hello'
    
    paths = [os.path.join(in_dir,file) for file in os.listdir(in_dir) if remove in file]
    
    for file in paths:
        os.rename(file, file.replace(remove, ""))
    

