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Audit troublesome filename characters
Report control characters, trailing dots, and Windows-reserved filenames.
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1# Make sense of a busy folder.
2from pathlib import Path
3from collections import Counter
4
5files = Path("sample-folder").iterdir()
6counts = Counter(
7 p.suffix.lower() or "[no extension]"
8 for p in files if p.is_file()
9)
10for extension, count in counts.items():
11 print(extension, count)
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Audit declared response content types
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