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Automation | Python Script

I've been exploring using LLM's to automate tasks using python,. This is a simple script that renames all the files by date, adds a unique identifier, and puts all the different file types in a separate folder. I didn't make any modifications to the code, the LLM wrote it by itself. It took some iteration and about 30 minutes.

import os
import datetime
import shutil

def rename_and_move_files_in_directory():
    # Get the current working directory
    current_directory = os.getcwd()
    files = os.listdir(current_directory)

    for filename in files:
        # Skip directories
        if os.path.isdir(filename):
            continue

        # Extract the creation date of the file
        creation_date = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getctime(filename))
        formatted_date = creation_date.strftime(''%m_%d_%Y_%H%M%S'')
        
        # Extract file extension
        file_extension = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
        if not file_extension:  # Skip files without extensions
            continue

        # Construct the new filename
        new_filename = f"{formatted_date}{file_extension}"

        # Check if a file with the desired name already exists and handle it
        counter = 1
        while os.path.exists(new_filename):
            new_filename = f"{formatted_date}_{counter}{file_extension}"
            counter += 1
        
        # Rename the file
        os.rename(filename, new_filename)

        # Create a folder for the file type if it doesn't exist and move the file there
        folder_name = file_extension[1:]  # Remove the dot from the extension
        if not os.path.exists(folder_name):
            os.makedirs(folder_name)
        shutil.move(new_filename, os.path.join(folder_name, new_filename))

rename_and_move_files_in_directory()
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