loop though textfiles

Max Haas Max.Haas at unibas.ch
Mon May 14 11:18:38 EDT 2001


Martin Johansson wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> How can I do if I want to do a searchmethon on several textfiles? Can I use
> fileinput and how should I do?
> It must be some kind of loop.

Perhaps you can try something like:

the_dir = give your directory with the files you're
interested in

MyDir = os.listdir(the_dir) # make a list of all these files

# then your loop:

for file_name in MyDir: #file_name is the name of the
current file
	do text search here

Regards

Max




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