On Feb 19, 3:56 pm, oamram <oam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Pythonist, > new to python. i have a directory with about 50 text file and i need to > iterate through them and get > line 7 to 11 from each file and write those lines into another file(one file > that will contain all lines). > > Cheers, Omer. > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/iterating-through-files-tp22048070p22048070.html > Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
I would recommend using the glob module to grab a list of the files you want or you can just create your own list. Then use a loop to grab the lines you want. Something like this: f = open(textFile) newFile = open(newFileName, "a") x = 1 for line in f.readlines(): if x >=7 and x <=11: newFile.write(line + "\n") You could even put the above inside a loop that loops over the list of files. Anyway, that's one approach. I'm sure there are many others. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list