Here's the final working script. It opens all of the text files in a
directory and its subdirectories and combines them into one Rich text
file (index.rtf):
#! /usr/bin/python
import glob
import fileinput
import os
import string
import sys
index = open("index.rtf", 'w')
class DirectoryWalker:
# a forward iterator that traverses a directory tree, and
# returns the filename
def __init__(self, directory):
self.stack = [directory]
self.files = []
self.index = 0
def __getitem__(self, index):
while 1:
try:
file = self.files[self.index]
self.index = self.index + 1
except IndexError:
# pop next directory from stack
self.directory = self.stack.pop()
self.files = os.listdir(self.directory)
self.index = 0
else:
# get a filename, eliminate directories from list
fullname = os.path.join(self.directory, file)
if os.path.isdir(fullname) and not
os.path.islink(fullname):
self.stack.append(fullname)
else:
return fullname
for file in DirectoryWalker("."):
# divide files names into path and extention
path, ext = os.path.splitext(file)
# choose the extention you would like to see in the list
if ext == ".txt":
print file
# print the contents of each file into the index
file = open(file)
fileContent = file.readlines()
for line in fileContent:
if not line.startswith("\n"):
index.write(line)
index.write("\n")
index.close()
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