[Tutor] a quick Q: how to use for loop to read a series of files with .doc end

[Alan Gauld]

On 29/09/11 15:22, lina wrote:
> I want to read a bunch of *.doc file in present working directory,

What format are the doc files?
If they are word processor files they may well be in binary format so 
you will need to either decode them (using struct?) or find a module 
that can read them, or a tool that can convert them to something you can 
read.

Once you figure out how to read a single file reading multiple files can 
be done in a number of ways including using os.walk() and a
for loop (or the fileinput module).

for root,dirs,files in os.walk(path):
     docs = [f for f in files if f.endswith '.doc'] # or use glob
     for line in fileinput.input(docs):
         #process line


But the hardest bit is likely going to be the reading of the files if 
they are not plain text.

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Alan G
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