useful script, file renamer in python

[rajiv-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A at public.gmane.org (Rajiv Aaron Manglani)]

> So, Jabra's script didn't really make nice file names as far as I
> could tell, which was the point of my original script, to covert file
> names into something less nasty.  Here is an example of the rename
> command, which is a perl program distributed standard on at least all
> Debian/Ubuntu and probably other distros as well...
...
> So rename takes perlexpr's as arguments.  And you can combine multiple
> directives with ';', which I didn't known until I asked in #perl.
> Good stuff...

check out http://detox.sourceforge.net/

"Detox is a utility designed to clean up filenames. It replaces difficult 
to work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents. It 
will also clean up filenames with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters 
in them."

you can also create your own translation tables for it to use.

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