Start Automating Your Life Using Python! (File Management with Python Tutorial)

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And that’s what automating your life with Python allows you to do, so in this video I will show you how to get started with learning to teach your computer to do the boring and menial tasks you do every day, and we’re going to be doing that via a simple project to automatically organise your computer’s downloads folder.
You might ask, do I need to use Python, and if so why Python?If I know C, Java or Javascript, can I use those to automate my life? And yes, you probably can use other languages, the reason why Python is usually used for these types of applications is that it's easy to learn, has an active community, and has tons of libraries to cover many automation needs.
In addition it’s very simple to write and understand and sort of does a lot for you so you don’t need to worry about low level details like memory management or types for example.
The only downside of Python is that it’s much slower than something like C, but for these simple automation scripts that doesn’t really matter.
But yes, you can probably use other languages, you just need to check that the language has the ability to touch your computer’s file system for example.
I do recommend using Python. It’s a very nice and sleek language.
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[@InternetMadeCoder]

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[@sherryzia6770]

a to-do program

[@skzyr8865]

A program that evaluates the code from your project and generates new functionality easily, in order to save coding times.

[@bryanst.martin7134]

I have 2. A phone/tablet accessible ESP controller. One a BMS to monitor power usage on a vehicle battery bank, and another to operate valves to deflate/inflate vehicle tires on a multi purpose truck. The tire function is probably a PID mode.

[@PsyTale]

Use automator ans shortcuts. Save more rime.

[@janpedersen9120]

Find some website with something you want to buy when price changes.. so in general get a notify when price changes :)

[@sotirioskapartzianis235]

Btw, there's also a book called "How to automate the boring stuff with python", which teaches you how to do these kinds of tasks

[@InternetMadeCoder]

yep it's great!

[@sherryzia6770]

@@InternetMadeCoder do i read it online or just buy it?

[@sotirioskapartzianis235]

@@sherryzia6770 you can read a small part of it or buy it

[@Gamirca]

@@sherryzia6770 just pirate it

[@maxneumann9876]

nice ad

[@smittywerbenjj1]

This is not a tutorial about File Management with Python. This is a tutorial about how bring your Ideas to code step-by-step, which is a very important skill. very nice 👍

[@neanea5899]

Holaa Jesus is coming back soon! I’m telling you, only 1 name gives life: JESUS! 2 or 3 years ago i was depressed and suicidal and one day when on tiktok I encountered the love of JESUS. The Unconditional saving love of Jesus. You see, we are all sinners, the Bible says it, in “Rom 8;28: For all have sinned amd fallen short of the glory of God” we have all at some point in our life turned away from God, but god does not want us to be separate from him. You, God is holy and a righteous person who lives in heaven and made all and most imporgantly cares for all.("1Peter: Cast all your cares upon Him, for He (God) cares for you" have strayed form Him into the devils trap of temptation to sin, which we will all one day be judged for . I beg you, please turn away from sin, becaue it will send your soul to hell. So , you see the result of sin is death and eternal separation form the goodness of God, which is a terrible matter, because this leaves us with the fire and wrath of hellfire. Thats why Jesus died. The only son of the living God ,Jesus Christ loved you enough to give His life for you, so that instead of dying, you would be saved and obtain a place in Heaven, not by your good works, but by the works of christ himself. (Jn 3 :16 For God so loved the worñd tjat He gave His One and Only begotten Son, tnat whomsoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life") . This is applicable only if you repent of your sins!, which i beg you to do.

[@RoboDragonJediKnight]

You might consider running this as a background process. You could do research onto running scripts as a long running background process. In addition you might consider scheduling this "background script" to run at startup of your computer. Areas of research include "MacOS launch agents" (fancy name for background process; you might also hear the term daemon in Mac world managed using launchd) or crontab to run programs on a schedule. An alternative you could consider "Startup Apps" which you could search for in MacOS ecosystem that might be a bit more user friendly to get a program to run at startup. Note you could further refine that as MacOS isn't my daily driver, so there might be a better way to accomplish your goal of further automating your system. As is the case with any problem, there are multiple solutions. The benefit of running it in the background is that you don't have an extra terminal window minimized. The benefit of running at startup is that you need not start the script manually. Great video 👍

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Yes, thank you, this is something that I was looking for!

[@anthonymendoza6528]

in your experience are scripts like this light weight, it seems like the WATCHDOG library is handling all that in the background. but is that a high frequency loop

[@ColeCoug]

Do you know how much processing power running a background process like this would use? I am wondering if there is a way to just run the sorting script once everytime something appears in the download folder instead and if that would even be worth it?

[@RoboDragonJediKnight]

@@ColeCoug Not sure. One way to test that empirically would be using a process manager to monitor cpu and memory usage. If that doesn't work, you could do some simple logging and performance analysis of the python code and then determine whether your performance is acceptable. You can do some research on the aforementioned topics and you'll probably have an answer.

[@RoboDragonJediKnight]

@@anthonymendoza6528 I haven't looked into implementation of WATCHDOG. I would imagine under the covers, yes, it's high frequency loop that checks for changes over time and allows a programmer to program a system in an event-driven way (on_modified in this case). This is what GUIs do if you have any experience with event listeners and handlers GUI programming (javascript, event loop, etc.). As for performance, you could analyze it empirically with performance monitor would probably be the way to go. I would imagine it's pretty lightweight. Computers are fast these days :)

[@bobans]

The first thing you need is a trigger for the downloads folder, something like, if the downloads folder contains an image, move image to the appropriate folder or if the downloads folder contains video, move video to appropriate folder. Really awesome video. Gave me a lot of ideas of how to automate daily tasks with python. Will definitely subscribe.

[@masqueradinglampshade4369]

LOVE your description of what got you excited about coding. How you describe having a "superpower" that allows you to tell your computer to perform highly-specific tasks in a way that makes it like having an "unpaid virtual assistant you have access to at all times." You took the words right out of my mouth with that one. That's exactly what excites me about Python, too. Great video!

[@InternetMadeCoder]

amazing!!

[@dmitrypolovin1776]

Z9.

[@ansgar7824]

I see you hard coded the differentiation for the type of file based on the file extension. Python actually comes with a library for fetching or guessing the MIME-Type of a file, which not only determines the general type (e.g. text, picture, video), but also the subtypes as text/css. It’s simply called mimetypes.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

oh really, good to know!

[@neanea5899]

Jesus loves you, but all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and He is coming back soon, so please repent of your sins and follow Christ today. Biblical prophecy is coming true. Jesus Christ, the Only Son of the Living God

[@220SouthlandAve]

@@neanea5899 Coming from a fellow Christian, what in the absolute f*** does this have to do with anything this video was intending to present? If you're wanting to automate posting evangelical comments (or replies) onto KZbin videos, you should at least have your automator check the context of the video somehow first lol.

[@brainsniffer]

Great video, and a great thought. I’m big on automating, but I always focus on the big things and forget there’s micro-automations that could improve my life like this. One suggestion I have is, maybe the event that’s triggered that says that a file changed has a property that tells you which file, and you may not need to scan the directory. That would make sense to me, but I’m not as familiar with python to say for sure. Also, you possibly want to make sure the file isn’t still downloading, but most downloaders these days have a temp name and then change to the real name when finished.

[@paulmilakeve]

As usual you did a great job balancing information with showing actual use cases

[@alienhon]

It's a really great video. I really Loved your approach towards coding,and using it for day to day lives. I just to know what all extensions do you use in your vs code

[@PoeLemic]

This is a really good and helpful video. I have helped teach a class on computers (not like this stuff), and this Guy has done a really good job of teaching. He's got a great future on KZbin doing this. I sure hope he keeps posting more projects like this that people can learn from. Maybe, he could even have a Q&A videos where people ask him how to do something, then he shows us.

[@blackburn32197]

Thank you for sharing. I think for me and most beginners is it is easy to get overwelled with programing. This video has made my life a little bit easier.

[@Reecepbcups]

If you want it to always run, setup a CRONTAB job to run every say, 10 seconds. You put the absolute path of the file there and it will run it in It’s directory.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

👍👍

[@jaycesardo5616]

I used pyautogui (a Python automation module) and cURL to download practically all images from a website (almost 3,000+ images) and automated the process of saving every layer from Photoshop. That's how great python is.

[@max_porush]

Great video! In regards to keeping it running, the best solution imo would be to have it automatically run whenever opening a browser. Simplest way that I could think would be to write a simple script that runs both that you rename / change icon to your preferred browser. If you think about it, it’s unlikely that you’d be downloading files without browsing the internet and on the off chance that you downloaded a couple files from something like discord, this should organize them as soon as you run a browser (probably pretty often). I’m not sure if there’s also a way to have it stop running when you close a browser but maybe someone else in the comments would know.

[@e11world]

This is very awesome and got me thinking of something I've wanted to do for a really long time (automating adding meta tags to files once they are in a certain folder such as in this video's example having tags for music files as music and sfx for sound effects where I currently use mp3tag program on Windows to do this manually). For this though I need to know a bit more about starting with Python first. This is a good start too.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

interesting idea for sure

[@hoochiecoochieman5505]

I'm a smart but a lazy person, I can't even tell you the lengths I'd go to have a chance to be a bit lazier on a daily basis. When I first started to learn a little bit of programming, my essential goal was to automatise my work, which was writing some really generic texts. Although the work I was doing changed a little bit after that, I liked programming and now I'm thinking about having it as a career path. Still a long way to go, but working on it every day and I'm sure I'll get there one day.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

I'm the same as you, ambitious but lazy at the same time haha. That's one of the 3 main reasons why I love programming, I talk about that more on next week's video

[@ShaneFozard]

Great video. Thanks. I made the mistake of running the program w/o having created the folders so it moved all the files to a file (not a folder) of the same name, but was unusable. Essentially I lost all my files. Fortunately I had a backup, restored all files and rectified my mistake and it worked perfectly. Thanks.

[@jd2161]

Lesson learned lol

[@kamel3d]

You could run it periodically as agent in the background I have used it before it is very easy to set up just edit the plist file for that

[@dhyeyy]

the consistency is crazyyy man 💙

[@sandman4485]

When you're downloading a file in windows, it creates both an extension file and a part download file, and on completion it merges into a single file. Will this delay of download cause the program to move the extension to the folder before it finishes downloading and get corrupted? If yes, how would one fix that?

[@efesonmez7662]

That was a great video. As someone who recently started to learn python, especially for data and web design. Your videos are very inspiring. Maybe you can make a video about designing our own website using Django

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Great to hear! Perhaps I will

[@s-codes14]

@@InternetMadeCoder isn't Django used for api's and not for web designing

[@its_nihar]

@@s-codes14 yes we can use django to make APIs

[@brevanpharaoh]

@@s-codes14 Djangois used for website front and backend, not just for APIs.

[@s-codes14]

@@brevanpharaoh I had no idea, but I'll do some further research, I just thought Django was for the backend only.🤔

[@ward7576]

When the event is called for file "appearing" in the folder, it's ambiguous to scan the directory for files to find the one you need. It already gives you the filename, the folder is already given and, unless a bit switch happens due to cosmic rays, your program won't fail to see that - yes, file exists and move it since it exists. Of course, unless, again, race condition happens and that file happens to suddenly disappear between it being found and acted upon.

[@whoami-ty1kp]

Hi, I'm so inspired from you. I'm also learning coding by myself from internet. I wanted to ask that in how many languages you can code?

[@mehdisheriff]

Great video! Btw, for those wondering, there is a way to do this without any coding knowledge through Automator which is an app on every mac. Jeff su highlighted this in one of his recent videos

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Oh really haha, oh well at least this was a great exercise😂

[@mehdisheriff]

@@InternetMadeCoder yeah defo. Great practice project

[@VamsiKrishna-pp4fy]

In windows cmd > md "pdf folder" > move *.pdf "pdf folder" We can do similarly for other file types also

[@osamaabdulqader2869]

@VamshiKrishna-pp4fy This is a manual task

[@lexcrob1]

Been getting bogged down with learning python took a break to find real world application. That was awesome!!

[@SaulEduardoo2]

I liked your video!!... Just a quick doubt, I didn't understand the last part about how to keep the script running 🤔

[@pixelqode]

Great approach to the coding 👍thanks..btw which code editor are you using..

[@InternetMadeCoder]

VS Code

[@gabrielblanco2969]

Quick tip, if you want to make those paths from line 9 to 13 work for more users you can use os.path.expanduser('~') to get the home directory in a dynamic way

[@InternetMadeCoder]

thanks!!

[@ikiguy07]

First, Congratulations 🎉🥳 for 57k subs... Second, That's what we wanted mate!!! Tutorialsssssas!!!!!! For some real projects (I haven't learn python yet but I'll learn it in future saving this in my watch later)

[@InternetMadeCoder]

thanks so much!! And yeah, people have been asking for these, more coming in the future!🔥

[@theinnerlacedmystic]

having this run in background is a waste of resources, but at shutdown!! thanks mate!!

[@thealpacaofsupport258]

I am studying coding at my university, we have been learning about stuff like WinApi to do windows using C++ and stuff Just a couple of days ago I realized I could be using what I am learning for stuff I need to do in my daily life, and no just using this knowledge at homework and school projects This video was very interesting and fun! I enjoyed it a lot ^^

[@Casey74]

After getting bogged down with the program, it keep review on what I was doing wrong and then... Finally got it to work. @Internet Made Coder was totally right, it does feel good when you build something for yourself to solve a problem. Thanks bro!

[@jwoneill1512]

Like the video. What editor or ide are you using?

[@amoralmemes]

This is the clearest training I've ever seen

[@koimipoimi5483]

Aattelin et äijäl vähä suomalaist aksenttii mut sähän oot suomalainen! Hyvä video, tilaukseen meni.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

🇫🇮

[@Zain-ks8ws]

I always thought that copying code off of the internet is not good, and I was worried that it would not help me learn, but your video made it look fine; as long as it works, there is no harm.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

definitely no harm at all!

[@orangutex468]

it is not harmful it just make sense why make code if someone else has already made it

[@AshoxNr1]

Haha I already planed to write the same program to keep my downloadfolder clean before I've seen this video! It seems i'm not the only one who is pissed of about the missing function for doing this :D But nice explanation bro, realy helpful!

[@gustavofelicidade_]

Such great content I've discovered here! thanks in advance!

[@tizioacaso3933]

I don't know if you've found the solution on how to run your program on background i've found one (bc i've done what you've done only with shows, anime etc...) and here it is: you can rename the extension of your python script file to pyw, after that you create the executable and after you run it it will be created as a process in background that you can close through the task manager and if you want it to be started at the start up of your pc you can press WIN+R and type in "shell::startup" and place inside your .exe

[@InternetMadeCoder]

I see, I'm on mac though, might be a different process. But there are many other solutions suggested in this comment section for mac, just haven't got arounf to doing it haha

[@MEATHEADBooYA]

I was wondering can you make a python web application or just GUI that speaks with windows functions? Such as what you are exactly doing here, listening to windows and then moving a file.

[@vaisakhkm783]

youcan add tessract ocr to automatically name your images from keyword within the file :)

[@marckramer5365]

You can use launchd to start your program automatically when your system starts.

[@midknight3350]

Quick question: What would you look for on a job listing if you want to automate a job?

[@barrybatsma8947]

I love how honest u are ;) like i also searched it on the internet.

[@furkan9864]

wonderful video man, thanks a lot

[@HoracioSantisteban]

Great video, thanks for puting this together! One question, did I miss the make unique function? if anyone caught it, would you kindly let me know Thanks, in advance,

[@jasonhowardak]

I would consider making an array of file types and then look in the array to match the file type for video, images, documents, etc rather than using many if or

[@InternetMadeCoder]

agree, someone kindly did that for us on the Github repo

[@gime1945]

Would it be an upgrade or downgrade to use another library that can detect the media/type of the file being downloaded? Optimization wise, in order to accommodate more file types.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

if there is a library that automatically detects the file type, I'm sure that would be an improvement.

[@kashimmohammed7081]

Hi, I do the same routine tasks everyday, as the days pass by I feel there isn't nothing new in my work and errors and other scheduling are pretty much never changed, I am looking for some sort of automation, it does include switching between excel, browser some logins can you suggest me how I should automate this work

[@lindsayryder6919]

Can someone explain more what he meant by setting the moverhandler() to an instance I created myself? Do I absolutely need to modify it for it to work for me? I’ve kept all the other variable names the same and set them to my specific paths.

[@timcurzar6930]

Which MacBook are you using for all your programming?

[@kerimtim]

Thank you for the video. Very interesting. Now, how do I autorun the script or keep it running all the time?

[@InternetMadeCoder]

What I do is just run it on a terminal window every time I open my computer and then just leave it running at all times. There is probably a better way to do that, as many people have commented

[@edgarmendoza3838]

Excellent video… thanks for the content, im going to create some tasks like that… regards from Mexico

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Thank you. Go for it!

[@wongkitlongmarcus9310]

great! i am exactly looking for ideas like this

[@sunidhigarg673]

hey, i am noob in this but you are helping me in learning, thankyou!

[@mark_pribylnov]

The location of your channel and this video is Finland. How have you learned English to such incredible level? 😮 How long did it take?

[@Brry4]

Is building the code line by line but searching for some parts of the code on google counted as building from scratch or optimising your code

[@johnnydepp4114]

I love the way you are being hournest about your google search... i do the same and learn alot of it :D :D

[@jaydeepkadam]

Sir , bring more videos automation. Very interesting and detailed videos 👍👍👌👌

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Sure 👍

[@user-xb9hi6xb1w]

What if, I stop the terminal then these code will run in the background . Because if we think from user perspective then they will only download our file and that should work in the background ?

[@travisthomas4886]

I want to take cs50 and eventually expand to other programming courses like the programming with c++ and game development. How long do you recommend waiting before enrolling in another course after completion of cs50 intro to computer science?

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Why would you need to wait?

[@travisthomas4886]

@@InternetMadeCoder do you ever feel overwhelmed by the work or a need to take a quick break in order to process the material better?

[@Kinos141]

How bout one better. Make python list all file exts and create folders for those exts. If you want, you can create a list so that the code groups similar files, like jpg and pngs. Edit: I just did what I proposed. Thanks to this video.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

great idea, I think the updated code in the github repo has something similar

[@anilrathore.bigthink]

Thank you, Well Explained !

[@RudyBanks]

I wrote a batch script that moves my files to folders based on the file extension. Not running in background but one click and boom all files cleaned up.

[@DoorThief]

2:58 at this point in the video I got the urge to build a windows service that monitors for new file creations in my downloads folder, determines their MIME type, if the mime type doesn't match the file extension it would replace it, then it moves the new file into a directory with the extension name.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

cool!

[@Later_Nerd]

The thing about programming is it's not as simple as people make it out to be. There's a ton of marketing saying everyone can do it and sure, at some level, everyone can do it. But to push past that entry level skill it is difficult. There are a lot of concepts that are difficult to wrap your brain around and it's unlike anything else. You have to rewire your brain in some instances just to finally start to understand bits and pieces. There will be times where you are starting at your computer monitor just mad because you've been stuck at a wall for an hour or two. Nothing you try works. Then once you finally find a solution then there is an immense sense of satisfaction. If you don't feel that sense of satisfaction then you should find another industry because you need that in order to not get burnt out. It's also really easy to get stuck doing tutorial after tutorial and never really learning the material on your own. You will learn a lot more going through a tutorial and then trying to implement those ideas without a video holding your hand. It will be hard, you will be googling things like crazy and it will probably suck. But that's how you actually learn. Figuring out how to Google your problems and find your own solutions is a very relevant skill in itself in this industry. Nobody is expecting you to remember every line of syntax. But you should be expected to find the answer, or at least something relevant to the answer by searching online. By finding problems in your life that you want to solve, that will keep you doing real world projects and putting those concepts you've worked so hard in real world use. Without that will to find these answers and solve these problems you won't make it in this field. I've seen it hundreds of times. People get enticed by the dollar signs and job security. While that all is true, you have to reach a certain level in the industry for it to be the case. If everyone could truly do it then these jobs wouldn't pay to much. Just a realistic take on programming. The marketing from a lot of companies would lead you to believe that it's very easy and that with a can do attitude you can be making $250k a year in 6 months and that is not at all the case for 99.9% of people.

[@md.masumomarjashim]

Is there a way to run a Python code only when a change occurs? Without using Windows Task Scheduler. Most times on Google Windows Task Scheduler comes up.

[@filiperc]

its possible to send automatically masajes in any app, ho have chat, using python?

[@ThomHemenway]

You probably should use a compiled language for this so you can start this program up on startup for Windows

[@cutezafar99]

Great approach to the coding

[@ngabngab4891]

Exactly, for me coding is like a super power 😂..cryptic to many that it seems like odd enchantment ...

[@AdityaSharma-fx1jx]

A really informative video as expected and greatly explained......BTW what happened to your thumb

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Thanks! Haha, dw it’s fine I just cut it a bit😅

[@jairoluigideoliveira8946]

when trying to move a file to a directory that already has a file with the same name, it renames the file and moves, but to the directory where the .py file is stored. How can I solve this?

[@ChetanKania]

Just came across your channel. Very helpful as a beginner, thank you! Quick question: what app are you using on your mac to write your python code?

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Thanks! I use VS Code

[@ChetanKania]

@@InternetMadeCoder perfect thank you!

[@MuhammadAhmedAshraf]

what's the meaning of initializing npm and initializing express initializing session what does this means in backend development

[@InternetMadeCoder]

No idea

[@nikos4677]

it meqns to make anew priject and install express what you dont understand?

[@edzoft7546]

If anyone is running into a codec error on, try a raw string for source_dir. Do this by putting an r in front of your string as below. source_dir = r"C:\Users\username\Downloads"

[@TiredCommentary99]

Can this still be done with Python 3.10? im also on windows.

[@rsxhitman]

You can easily do this with autoit..although not sure if it’ll run on OS X

[@boxbi3726]

Are you know embedded system? Or VLSI ? Or microcontroller program?

[@nxzthelinuxguy5192]

You can setup a cron job which can basically run that python script every minute

[@jaykjellberg5274]

Okay alright! Since I am finally a bit faster than usual. I have several questions, my mate:) I am like 28 yo and I am a CMO at somewhat big it company. I am thinking to transfer a little bit to somewhat coding. Because more and more when you do marketing you actually need some decent coding skills. (have similar to you background actually, also studied Economics :) so questions: -how long you actually been coding? because what i see now, you seem like a decent programmer at this point with decent skills. -future of automation (my biggest fear tbh, because I am aware that IT can be automated way faster since its all in the cloud already, and we have tonnes of data. Just have a look what Dall-e 2 can do, mindblowing). I mean if it will take me 2years to get to a decent level, isn't it too little too late? I-cant really figure out your stack of technologies?) -and how long it took you (really) to be that good with KZbin?:) Ty in advance mate, big fan. Cheers from your ex-neighbor from Saint-petersburg. (because of the current situation had to leave for another country, unfortunately:)

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Thanks for the comment Jay! 1. Now almost a year. I do some coding most days but not every day. 2. Def not too late. If you are referring to programmer jobs being automated, I don't think that will ever happen (could be wrong here ofc). Once you get into coding, you'll notice that a lot of it is actually quite a creative endeavour. You need to solve problems, which you need a human brain for. Actually writing the code is actually less important than figuring out how to write it. 3. I wouldn't say I stick to a stack, I use Python a lot, then Javascript for web stuff, dabbled with Swift for mobile, and I also did some C as part of CS50 + Java as part of an Algorithms course. 4. Haha, thank you, really it took over a year. I had a different channel before this one for a year which was a complete failure. But it was great practice :). Good luck if you decide to get into coding!!

[@jaykjellberg5274]

@@InternetMadeCoder Jeez, thank you for your time:) such long and awesome answers, appreciate it a lot. Oh wow, you are learning so fast tbh:) Kudos to you for that! 2:) yeah, you are somewhat right I guess. but the sheer scale of automation is mindboggling:) I fully understand it when OPEN ai defeated OG (Dota 2 2x world champions), like the most "human" game with so many variables and a huge amount of teamwork. Was really the day when I realized how good it actually is lol. If you did not see it, strongly recommend. Especially since 2 of the team members were Finns:) 3:) quite impressive once again. 4) knew it! ahah) no one can do that good starting from zero. I kinda suggest you do the same video as this girl kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4WWeIxuhbicias&ab_channel=RuriOhama , because with we only see "tip of an iceberg", really good 2 know your beginnings. Ye I will, really wanna connect marketing with coding somehow:)

[@dutchdykefinger]

i made a whole suite of custom CLI php scripts with similar purposes over the last 15 years orso indexing files, populating databases to make things more meta searchable and the such, nealy packaging for most of my non-automated file finding , i ofcourse use voidtools everything, it also has a small ETP server biltin you can enable (or even make a service) for testing intranet kind of shit, but yeah that relies on the windows/samba infrastructure a bit more

[@Thisisahandle701]

When I try to use your code for this from github It has trouble with the syntax, can you help me out?

[@gustavojuantorena]

Great video! Quick improvement: You can use a tuple as argument of "endswith()" method, so you can define all the possible extensions without the chained "or". example: name.endswith((".mov", ".MP4"))

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Oh thanks, didn’t know that!

[@kingz4038]

That’s cool, I’m learning python rn and just learnt about tuiles. Could to see they are actually useful.

[@sarimbinwaseem]

Thanks for improving my knowledge Gustavo

[@jessieonfly]

I think it is better if you have a array list of each file type.

[@Yutaro-Yoshii]

With shell, we could just `mv *.mp4 ./vids` But I digress, this is a beautiful introduction into coding everyone was wishing for. If you could pick up this thinking process, you can basically make anything!

[@Yutaro-Yoshii]

Also, if you want to make your script execute every now and then, you may want to look into launchctl on mac, and systemctl on linux (sorry don't know the equivalent on windows). Those things are called service workers or daemons, and it starts up when your computer boots up.

[@inayathkhalil2247]

can someone plz ans to my question ok so I get to choose my professors and subjects for every semester but unfortunatly i am not able to choose my favorite professor,because so many people are choosing the same professor ,so is there anyway i can use python automation to be quick and take my favorite professors without moving a finger ?

[@tadeastehan7275]

I did everything as instructed, but instead of a file folder, it was just a file, and when I open it in Notepad, I see random letters. That's how I lost a lot of files. Please, give me an advice

[@AB-fj5wi]

I dont get how the observer's schedule function knows to call that specific on_modified function of the MoverHandler What if the MoverHandler had multiple methods?

[@InternetMadeCoder]

I believe that’s just how the Observer api is built under the hood.

[@marana.th4]

yesss do the shell scripting bit pleaseeee

[@cetrick_yeanay]

Thank you! Everyone in comments such brilliant minds! 🙏🏾

[@Colvin.crochet]

"just like asolving any programing problem... you go to google" 🤣🤣🤣

[@IsaThePhilosophical]

What app do u use?

[@InternetMadeCoder]

VS Code

[@Kaizala1933]

So what happens when a file is being downloaded and that watch dog library detects it and moves it while the download isn't over yet?

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Not 100% sure

[@saysnilaz8486]

how can I use the python program in windows command prompt with little step by step instructions

[@parbonsenga9296]

how much experience and understanding should you have to accomplish this project ?

[@2ncielkrommalzeme210]

your video is brief. but you program on Mac . is it posible in windows cmd your written scripts. i mean the scripts that you wrote in command line i n your video.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

I think so, I’m not familiar with coding on Windows

[@Cathiina]

Hi, I downloaded Python but everything looks rather ‘dull’ in the default command prompt. How did you get that Python user interface with colours of variables, functions, etc? :)

[@InternetMadeCoder]

I use VS Code (code editor) and have changed the theme

[@Cathiina]

@@InternetMadeCoder Thanks very much!!😁