Re: Process multiple files

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  • Paul Anton Letnes

    Re: Process multiple files

    Funny,

    I'm just doing exactly this:

    import os

    def main():
    dataFolder = 'data/'
    fileList = os.listdir(data Folder)
    for file in fileList:
    inFile = open(dataFolder + file, 'r')
    print 'read inFile & do something useful here'

    Clear as an... egg?

    Cheers.
    Paul.



    Den 14. april. 2008 kl. 14.36 skrev 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.
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    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
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