reading from list with paths

**Larry Bates** · Jun 27 '08, 04:30 PM

Re: reading from list with paths

antar2 wrote:

Hello,
>
Suppose this is a stupid question, but as a python beginner I
encounter a lot of obstacles... so I would be very grateful with some
help for following question:
>
I would like to read files, of which the complete filepaths are
mentioned in another textfile. In this textfile (list.txt) are for
example the following paths:
>
/data/chorec/chorec-nieuw/s01/S01C001M1/S01C001M1_1LG_f 01.TextGrid
/data/chorec/chorec-nieuw/s01/S01C001M1/
S01C001M1_1LGPs eudo_f01.TextGr id
/data/chorec/chorec-nieuw/s01/S01C001M1/S01C001M1_AVI1_ f01.TextGrid
>
I know how to open and read one file in my current directory,
but after trying to find this out my self, I give up...
>
So could someone help me and write some code so that I know how to
open and read the content of the mentioned files.
>
Thanks a lot
>
Antar2

You didn't say what you wanted to do with the data in each of the files, but
perhaps this will get you going.

flist = open('list.txt' , 'r')

for fpath in flist:
fp = open(fpath, 'r')
#
# Do something with data in this file
#
for line in fp:

fp.close()
flist.close()

-Larry

reading from list with paths

reading from list with paths

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