Easy question on opening a file

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I want to check a directory, see if there are any files in it... then open 
each one and do something.

I have this...

files = os.listdir('/direcory')
if len(files) > 0:
    for file in files:
        f1 = file(file, "r")
        do some other stuff

But this raises a TypeError:
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

So I tried replacing the line f1 = file(file, "r") with f1 = file('%s' 
%file, "r")
But that does not work either.

I know this is easy, anyone care to point out the solution.

Thanks.

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