🤖 Automation to cleanup your desktop
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Welcome back to Pandas Daily! Your daily 5-minute boost to becoming confident in Python. Hope your weekend was great! I am sure we didn't waste it organizing the abundant files on our computers. There is a simple automation in Python that does this in few lines of code. 🌱 Import/Load needed modules We covered shutil on Friday, and os earlier.
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import os, shutil
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🎯 Select folder that needs cleanup
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desktop = os.path.expanduser("~/Desktop") print(desktop)
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/home/user/Desktop
✏️ Classify file types into categories can add more categories as needed (music, excel/csv)
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file_types = { "Images": [".png", ".jpg", ".jpeg"], "Docs": [".pdf", ".docx", ".txt"], "Others": [] }
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🛠️ Create sub folders for each category
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# makedirs creates folders # exist_ok avoids errors if folder is already present for folder in list(file_types.keys()): os.makedirs(os.path.join(desktop, folder), exist_ok=True)
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🪄 ✨ Below is where the magic happens
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# 1.Loop through all items in Desktop for file in os.listdir(desktop): path = os.path.join(desktop, file) # 2.Only move files, not sub folders if os.path.isfile(path): # 3.Move when extension of file matches to extensions in dictionary for folder, exts in file_types.items(): if file.endswith(tuple(exts)): shutil.move(path, os.path.join(desktop, folder, file)) break # 4.Move to "Others" if no match else: shutil.move(path, os.path.join(desktop, "Others", file))
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⭐📣 That's it for today! If you liked it, please share it with anyone who will find it useful and share your feedback below 🐼
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