[Minor] special characters in filename

[jschwalbe]

So with the changes I made, those were all made by someone who doesn't know python. :) What I wasn't able to figure out, is how to swap certain characters in filenames.. for instance:

Star Trek: The Next Generation

has a ':' which my filesystem doesn't particularly like to deal with, especially with certain bash scripts, etc.

My request would be to simply swap out certain characters such as:
' and " and ( and ) and ; and :
to replace them with maybe a dot (.) or a dash (-).

Thoughts? Thanks

[tdickman]

No worries, we all start somewhere!

Since you only have a few characters that you are replacing, I'd recommend using the .replace function.

string = "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
string.replace(":", ".")

This will swap out all instances of colons with dots. Do the same thing for the other characters you wish to replace.

Hope that helps, and I'm happy to answer any other questions, or help out if you get stuck again. I wish I had more time to work on this, but all I'll be able to do for the near future is help out - you're doing great work though!