yawgmoth7 wrote:
> Hello, I am currently writing a script that requires a few different
> files to be opened, and examined. What I need to be able to do is use
> something like:
>
> filelist = os.system("ls")
> <Some way to open the file list and read each file one by one here
>
>
> I cannot think of a way to do this, I could put them in a list of
> something of the sort. But that still does not solve the problem of
> opening them one by one.
>
> Thanks for all the advice and help.
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See os, os.path. Then check out the fileinput module.
A common pattern is:
for afilename in os.listdir(apath):
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(apath, afilename)):
for aline in open(os.path.join(apath, afilename)):
# do something with aline
This allows you to do something with each line of each file in a directory.
Here are some urls that you will find helpful for these kind of things:
http://docs.python.org/api/fileObjects.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-fileinput.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html
James
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