Process multiple files

[Doran, Harold]

Say I have multiple text files in a single directory, for illustration
they are called "spam.txt" and "eggs.txt". All of these text files are
organized in exactly the same way. I have written a program that parses
each file one at a time. In other words, I need to run my program each
time I want to process one of these files.

However, because I have hundreds of these files I would like to be able
to process them all in one fell swoop. The current program is something
like this:

sample.py
new_file = open('filename. txt', 'w')
params = open('eggs.txt' , 'r')
do all the python stuff here
new_file.close( )

If these files followed a naming convention such as 1.txt and 2.txt I
can easily see how these could be parsed consecutively in a loop.
However, they are not and so is it possible to modify this code such
that I can tell python to parse all .txt files in a certain directory
and then to save them as separate files? For instance, using the example
above, python would parse both spam.txt and eggs.txt and then save 2
different files, say as spam_parsed.txt and eggs_parsed.txt .

Thanks

[Duncan Booth]

Re: Process multiple files

"Doran, Harold" <HDoran@air.org wrote:

If these files followed a naming convention such as 1.txt and 2.txt I
can easily see how these could be parsed consecutively in a loop.
However, they are not and so is it possible to modify this code such
that I can tell python to parse all .txt files in a certain directory
and then to save them as separate files? For instance, using the example
above, python would parse both spam.txt and eggs.txt and then save 2
different files, say as spam_parsed.txt and eggs_parsed.txt .
>

This isn't exactly what you asked for, but have you looked at the fileinput
module: it will process a list of filenames pointing stdin at each file in
turn, optionally it can work inplace, but without that option I think it is
pretty close to what you want (warning, untested code follows):

output = None
for line in fileinput.input (n for n in glob.glob('*.tx t')
if not n.endswith('_pa rsed.txt')):

if fileinput.isfir stline():
if output: output.close()
output = open(fileinput. filename().repl ace('.', '_parsed.', 1),
'w')

print >>output, "parsed:", line.strip()

if output:
output.close()