Manyfile Processing

[Peter Otten]

user at domain.invalid wrote:

> On 12/04/2009 12:58 PM, Dan Sommers wrote:
> > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:00:53 +0200, user wrote:
> > 
> >>  sorry if i bother you with a beginners question but i have an issue
> >> with processing a bunch of files. They are some arithmetic lists the
> >> processing of one file is an easy task but how do i process many files?
> >> I tried reading that files in to a list and looping over the list
> >> elements but the function won't accept any arguments other than a
> >> string.
> > 
> > Maybe the fileinput module can help.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   seems like the fileinput module works fine for me though i am having
> quite an issue with the paths.
> 
> if i do:
> 
> 
> something = fileinput.input("/some/absolute/path/to/list/file.txt")
> #the text file contains absolute paths
> for line in something:
>         data=scipy.io.array_import.read_array(line)
>         print data
> 
> it claims that the paths given in the textfiles don't exist "no file or
> directory" though taking one entry from the textfile and inserting it
> directly to the command does its job...
> 
> Any idea?

line includes a trailing newline. You can see that if you modify your code 
to

for line in something:
    print repr(line)

Use

line = line.strip()

to remove the newline (in fact all leading and trailing whitespace).

Peter