It is sorted as a string and not as an integer (which it totally logic).

Convert string as int if you want to have them sorted “correctly”

Use os.rename(src, dst) to rename or move a file or a directory.

```$ ls
cheese_cheese_type.bar cheese_cheese_type.foo
$ python

import os
for filename in os.listdir(“.”):
… if filename.startswith(“cheese_”):
… os.rename(filename, filename[7:])
…

$ ls
cheese_type.bar cheese_type.foo```

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output = list(map(int,file_list))
i use this one but it doesn’t correct..

DIDx13 i found that on stack overflow.. but my problem right now is not how to rename them…

The order in which you get the files from listdir probably depends on the OS you are using. If you look at the documentation, it tells you the order is arbitrary.

If you want to sort the list, you can indeed convert the names to integers first, but you have to take into account that the filenames are not just integers. Using int on something with ‘.pdf’ will indeed not work. First remove the extension, then convert it.

B.t.w., I don’t think there is any reason to sort the list, is there? The order in which you rename them doesn’t matter and the filename itself is enough to determine the target filename.

You can remove the extension first and use os.rename, use a for loop to apply that on all of your files.

I can create a C# program who does that if you want but I don’t use that much python.

Let me know if you want me to create it maybe it will be helpful to you in some way ?

Guys thank you very much! That’s a full team spirit!

dloser i want to sort them cause those pdf’s are like a degree and it’s one has a specific name in it, so i have another list with names so i’d like to put each name to each pdf..

DIDIx13 I’ve already done it using some excel knowledge plus command line. Thank you very much for the support!
“hack this” make me using it so now i wanna do everything with that!

Really i appreciated!!

Just add
file_list.sort (key=int)
Before your loop. It will sort the list after passing each element to the int method. You would need to get rid of the extension first, you can do it prerty easily with map.

I am a bit lazy to comment this, but it should work:
file_list = list(filter(lambda s: s.count('.pdf') > 0, file_list)) file_list.sort(key=lambda s: int(s.replace('.pdf', ''))

It worked!! thanks WHGhost!!