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Originally Posted by TreeFrogBandit
I'm experimenting with custom columns, and I'd like to add one with the file path in it. The problem is that the formats_paths function gives me a list which is far too long.
First I get the formats information (which I don't need) and then I get the full path of each version of the file - when actually what I'm looking for is the element of the path that is unique to each book (i.e. the file path for a the folder the files are in, without the preceding information about where the library is)
For example, at the moment I would get something like:
"EPUB: C:\calibre library location which is a very long string\then the specific library that calibre is looking at\and finally the interesting bit\title.epub,ORIGINAL_EPUB: C:\calibre library location which is a very long string\then the specific library that calibre is looking at\and finally the interesting bit\title.original_epub" etc. etc
What I'd like to do is get something like:
"...\and finally the interesting bit\"
Sorry if this is difficult to follow, can anybody help me? I'm sure I'm not the only one who's wanted to do this...
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Use a regular expression via the re function to parse the string you get from format_paths.
The "...\and finally the interesting bit\" would seem to be the directory name that is derived (ascii-ized and sanitized) from the first author name. I'm curious, no puzzled, why anyone would want such a thing - if they're interested they can just press O' and look at the top of the File Explorer window.
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