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Emmanu
Emmanu

Reputation: 797

How to read a set of text files in to a single list in python

I have a set of text files and i am trying to read it into a single list.but when i execute my code

def get_documents():
 path1 = "D:/set/"
 texts=[]
 listing1 = os.listdir(path1)
 for file in listing1:
    with open(path1+file,'r') as f:
        lines = f.read().splitlines()
    texts.append(lines)
 print texts

I am getting output as list of lists

[['Wanna see Riya Somani :) wish lyf olso moment lyk end half galfrnd... :) '], ['Worst book Mr. Chetan Bhagat.. Plz better stori ']]

How can i get it as a single list?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 97

Answers (3)

selbie
selbie

Reputation: 104474

I believe instead of this:

texts.append(lines)

Do this:

texts.extend(lines)

Upvotes: 5

Sнаđошƒаӽ
Sнаđошƒаӽ

Reputation: 17552

You can simply use += to achieve that.

texts += lines

Upvotes: 1

user5895358
user5895358

Reputation:

as you might have guessed, splitlines() returns a list, so when you put the result into another list (in your case, texts), you will have a list containing some lists. so a way to reach your desired result is to use:

new_list = [item for sub_list in texts for item in sub_list]

new_list would be your desired list

Upvotes: 0

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