• Generate a large number of files with american style dates as their names (mm-dd-yyyy).
• All files have the original date saved in them so you can check if you code worked well after.
• Simple implementation of the date style conversor presented in the book (american to european).

• gendates.py -> Prints the help text

• gendates.py path=Path to save files name=Name of files num=Num of files -> Creates all files

• gendates.py defalut -> Creates files in default mode DEFAULT: gendates (save in current work directory) "us_date_" 100

• gendates.py compress path=Path to save files name=Name of Files num=Num of files -> Creates files and compress

• gendates.py compress default -> Creates files in default mode and compress

• dateconversor.py (Path to files) -> Converts every file inside the path that has american style dates

• check_leap(year) - Accepts an integer. Checks whenever that number will be a leap year or not, and returns True if yes and False if not.
• date_generator(n) - Accepts an integer and returns a list of strings. Generates a list of n size with valid non repeating american style dates.
• compress_dates(path, name, dates) - path is a pathlib.Path object, name is a string and dates is a list of strings. In the path, for each date in the list, gets the file with name + date and sends it into a .zip file in the same path.

• Getting user command line arguments separated by name
• Generating valid american dates with a function
• Compressing all date files in the path to a .zip archive
• Deleting the original files so we dont get duplicates
• Organizing main() in different functions

• Regex to indentify american style dates
• Getting all file names inside the path
• Indentify the files with valid american style dates
• Converting the dates in the filenames to european style
• try/except in re.sub() and .group()
• Use shutil.move() to change the name of the files
• Organize code in functions
• Get user inputed path
• Check if path is valid

Made based on the book 'Automate the Boring Stuff with Python' by Al Sweigart.

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