Read number of CSV files

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Thu Nov 8 03:44:58 EST 2012


Smaran Harihar wrote:

> I am able to read through a CSV File and fetch the data inside the CSV
> file but I have a really big list of CSV files and I wish to do the same
> particular code in all the CSV files.
> 
> Is there some way that I can loops through all these files, which are in a
> single folder, and get my code to read the files?

import glob
import csv

def process(filename):
    with open(filename, "rb") as f:
        rows = csv.reader(f)
        for row in rows:
            ... # whatever you want

for filename in glob.glob("/path/to/*.csv"):
    process(filename)





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