Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

born — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:40:26 +0000

hi …
I have been messing around with a python program to browse through images in a directory and display it in a canvas.can anybody help??

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

toto — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:28:56 +0000

thank you very much for your explaining. I get a problem when try to list file or directory in Python. You solve my problem

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

ablaze — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:54:24 +0000

Hi…
I am working in ubuntu. I have a bunch of commands (say 10 commands like cmd1, cmd2, cmd3…………..cmd10)
I want to write a python script, which can achive the following:

It should traverse through the directory structure and apply a command at particular directory path.
The location and the commands are already known to me.

/local/mnt/myspace/sample1$ cmd1
/local/mnt/myspace/sample2$ cmd2
/local/mnt/myspace$ cmd3
/local/mnt$cmd4
/local/mnt/myspace/sample9$ cmd 8
/local/mnt/myspace/sample3$ dmd10

can someone please provide the script as I am not event a beginner in python.

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Stefan — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:20:47 +0000

I found it:

dirList=os.listdir(path)

dirList.sort()

for fname in dirList:
print( fname)

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Stefan — Fri, 13 May 2011 11:51:45 +0000

Is there a possibility to list the files in order, by name ?
For example :
/path/file01.txt
/path/file02.txt
…………..

If I use the codes you presented here i get scrambled order

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Rommel — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:05:49 +0000

Thanks. This snippet helped a bunch.

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Bill Tate — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:47:43 +0000

Is there a way to also do thiw in Windows? What I need to do is
process every *.txt file in a directory, one at a time, inside
a Python script.

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Dan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:43:47 +0000

Ahh… My *.* as opposed to a * had it so it wasn’t looking at folders, thus the problem. Thanks again!

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Bogdan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:44:16 +0000

Dan,

script below seems to work perfectly for me:


import os, glob
def scandirs(path):
    for currentFile in glob.glob( os.path.join(path, '*') ):
        if os.path.isdir(currentFile):
            print 'got a directory: ' + currentFile
            scandirs(currentFile)
        print "processing file: " + currentFile
scandirs('Desktop')

Basically, I’ve changed the ‘*.*’ wildcard to just ‘*’.

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Dan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:07:09 +0000

Bogdan,

Thanks for the help. I’m still not getting the code to look at the directories within the path. Here’s my code, it still only looks at the files under the initial path.


def scandirs(path):
    for currentFile in glob.glob( os.path.join(path, '*.*') ):
        if os.path.isdir(currentFile):
            scandirs(currentFile)
        print "processing file: " + currentFile
scandirs('XML/')

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Bogdan — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:07:25 +0000

Make that code into a function – e.g. scan_dirs(path) – and add a single line of code to it (pseudocode below):
if os.path.isdir(infile): scan_dirs(infile)

This will do exactly what you want.

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Dan — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:14:11 +0000

Is there a way to change this script so that it also runs through sub-directories under the given path name?

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Kris — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:11:09 +0000

import os, glob
path = ‘./’
for infile in glob.glob( os.path.join(path, ‘*.*’) ):
print(“current file is: ” + infile)

#lists all files in directory script is in

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Richard — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:38:22 +0000

marvellous

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Ferralll — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:25:06 +0000

Thankyou very much…
This was exactly what I was looking for!

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Mike — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:52:37 +0000

import os, glob

def dir(path):
for infile in glob.glob( os.path.join(path) ):
print “current file is: ” + infile

path = dir(raw_input(“Enter the path: “))

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Bogdan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:21:08 +0000

Dt, thanks, I’ve updated the code.

Python: iterate (and read) all files in a directory (folder)

Dt — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:38:45 +0000

works just fine for me, only important change to the code that i had to make was turning print into a function because im using python 3.0, i also set it to read files with *all* extensions.

import os, glob

path = ‘insert your own path you lazy bastards ‘

for infile in glob.glob( os.path.join(path, ‘*.*’) ):
print(“current file is: ” + infile)