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1. Hi, I have a lot of files that have non-ascii characters in the file names and I need those characters removed en batch instead of one at a time.

   I ran across your post entitled “Remove non-ascii characters in file names” from 3/17/2011. I built the exe file using python but when I run the exe in cmd I get the error message “NameError: name ‘new_file’ is not defined

   How do I fix this?

   Here is the script in the file:

   import os
   for file in os.listdir(u”.”):
   if os.path.isfile(file) and file.endswith(u’.rar’):
   new_file = “”.join(i for i in file if ord(i)<128)
   if (file != new_file):
   print u"Renaming", file.encode('utf8'),u" to ", new_file.encode('utf8')
   os.rename(file, new_file)

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   1. Hi Stephen,

      thank you for your comment. Indeed, the error is correct as the new_file variable is defined only when the file_name is ending with the .rar extension. You can solve it in different ways, the easiest would be to add a line

      new_file = None

      just before the first ‘if’ statement. Alternatively you can put this in the ‘else’ statement for the first ‘if’.

      I hope this helps!

      Reply

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