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    <p>I have a python tool to 'touch' (utime) a file, then move to another folder. However, if the file already exists in the destination folder, it is silently overwritten. I would like to check for a file of the same name in the destination folder and, if it exists, rename the one I am moving to its name plus '-<em>n</em>' at the end, where <em>n</em> is a number starting at '1' and, if the file with '-1' at the end already exists, '-2' etc.<br> For example, say in the source folder is a file 'foo.txt', but there is one 'foo.txt' in the destination folder as well. This function should return '(absolute path)/foo<b>-1</b>.txt'.</p> <p>So, I have made a function to check for these circumstances and return the modified string, so I can use rename later and not overwrite. However, currently, if the file exists, it returns nothing. Following is the function code, assuming these vars:</p> <p><em>fileName</em> - input filepath, absolute path. e.g. /Users/foo/sourceFolder/bar.txt<br> <em>index</em> - iterator variable, set to '1' at the start of each file being opened (externally to function) </p> <pre><code>def checkExists(fileName): global index print "checkExists(" + fileName + ")" if exists(fileName): splitPath = split(newFile) splitName = splitext(splitPath[1]) newSplitName = splitName[0] + "-" + str(index) index += 1 newName = splitPath[0] + "/" + newSplitName + splitName[1] print "newName = " + newName else: print "(else) fileName = " + fileName print "(else) fileName = " + str(type(fileName)) print "" return fileName checkExists(newName) </code></pre> <p>Now it seems that the inner call for <em>checkExists()</em> at the end is not running.</p> <p>I hope I have been clear in my explanation.<br> <strong>IAmThePiGuy</strong></p> <p>P.S. I do not want to hear about potential race problems with utime, I know that the files in the source directory will not be accessed by anything else.</p>
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