Recode file names in the current directory from CP-1251 to file system's native encoding using Python

fix_cp1251_filenames.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
This script was written to solve a specific problem:

A large directory of video files had file names encoded in Windows-1251.
These file names would not display correctly in Windows 10 or OS X.
I wanted to recode them to the native encoding for the current file system.
Python is smart enough to apply the correct encoding when writing out
the file names to the file system.

The files must be in the 'current' directory. The extension 'wmv' is assumed.

@author: Oliver Frolovs
@year: 2018
"""

from os import listdir, rename
from fnmatch import fnmatch

for old_file_name in listdir('.'):
    if fnmatch(old_file_name, '*.wmv'):
        new_file_name = bytes(old_file_name, 'latin1').decode('cp1251')
        try:
            rename(old_file_name, new_file_name)
            print('Renamed "{}" to "{}"'.format(old_file_name, new_file_name))
        except:
            print("File skipped because failed to rename: {}".format(old_file_name))