Python Script for Running a Python Program over Different Files in the Directory

Brett Kelly inkedmn at inkedmn.com
Sat Mar 13 05:03:48 EST 2004


something like:

import os

for f in os.listdir('/path/to/dir'):
	<do stuff to f>

that's the best way i know for doing something to each file in a directory...

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 08:22:09 +0000, Shalen chhabra wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> Can anyone give me a snippet for running a python program over all the files 
> in the directory.
> For ex:  I have ten files in a directory and I want to run a python program 
> against all of these files, I wish to do the same using another python code 
> instead of running each of these files one by one, which would be cumbersome 
> giving the argv of each file every single time.
> 
> This can be easily done using a shell script but I just wanted to have a 
> flavour of python for this.
> 
> Thanks
> Shalen
> 
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