[Tutor] Parsing data from a set of files iteratively

[Prasad, Ramit]

>I have a set of ~500 files which I would like to run a script on. My script extracts certain information and 
>generates several lists with items I need. For one of these lists, I need to combine the information from all 
>500 files into one super-list. Is there a way in which I can iteratively execute my script over all 500 files 
>and get them to write the list I need into a new file? Many thanks in advance for your time.

Yes, it is possible. Have you made an attempt? Do you have some working 
or non-working code?

The Python tutorials will help as will the online documentation
How to get a list of files: http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html 
How to read/write a file: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files 


Hopefully that will give you a start.


Ramit


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