Imagefolder.py

# imagefolder.py
# Date: 03-03-2010
# Author: Dominic Portain
# Dependencies: Windows 5.0, Python 2.6, EXIF.py
# Function: Moves all JPGs and TIFFs into subfolders of the format YYMMDD

import os
import EXIF
import time
path=str(os.getcwd()) # current working directory
dirList = os.listdir(path)
for fname in dirList:
    fnamesplit=fname.split(".") # split filename to get extensions
    if len(fnamesplit)>1: # file actually has an extension?
        if fnamesplit[-1] in ('jpg', 'JPG', 'jpeg', 'JPEG', 'JPE', 'TIF', 'TIFF', 'tif', 'tiff'):
            JPGi = open ("\\".join((path, fname)), 'rb')
            tags = EXIF.process_file(JPGi, stop_tag='Image DateTime')
            JPGi.close()

            if 'Image DateTime' in tags.keys(): # sufficient Exif data?
                imagedatetime = str(tags['Image DateTime']).split(" ")
                imagedate = imagedatetime[0].split(":")
                ifolder = imagedate # format: YYYYMMDD
                ifolder[0]=imagedate[0][2:4] # format: YYMMDD
                ifolderstr="".join(ifolder)
                notice = ""
            else: # using file properties: the earlier one of creation and modification date
                notice = ", using file properties (no EXIF)"
                (fnameMode,fnameIno,fnameDev,fnameNlink,fnameUID,fnameGID,fnameSize,fnameAcctime,fnameModtime,fnameCreattime) = os.stat(fname)
                ifolderstr = time.strftime('%y%m%d', time.localtime(min(fnameModtime,fnameCreattime)))

            if not os.path.exists("\\".join((path, ifolderstr))): # path already available?
                os.system(" ".join(("mkdir", ifolderstr)))
                print " ".join(("Created Folder:", ifolderstr))
            moveerror = os.system("".join(("move ", "\"", fname, "\" ", ifolderstr))) # NTFS move is much faster than copy + delete
            if moveerror is 0:
                print " ".join(("Moved", fname, "to", ifolderstr, notice))
            else:
                print " ".join(("Error moving", fname, "to", ifolderstr))
    # ignore everything else in this folder