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user2129623
user2129623

Reputation: 2257

reading all the file content in directory

I have directory poem which contains 50 files and I want to read them all.

for file in os.listdir("/home/ubuntu/Desktop/temp/poem"):
    print file
    f = open(file, 'r')
    print f.read()
    f.close()

This code reads file name of all the files in directory. But it fails at 

f = open(file, 'r')

saying 

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '32'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7374

Answers (2)

Benjamin
Benjamin

Reputation: 2286

you are searching file in current join file path with directory folder.

import os

for i in os.listdir("/home/ubuntu/Desktop/temp/poem"):
    if os.path.isfile(os.path.join("/home/ubuntu/Desktop/temp/poem",i)):
        print os.path.join("/home/ubuntu/Desktop/temp/poem",i)
        f=open(os.path.join("/home/ubuntu/Desktop/temp/poem",i),"r")
        print f.readlines()
        f.close()

Upvotes: 1

SuperBiasedMan
SuperBiasedMan

Reputation: 9969

os.listdir only returns filenames, to get the full path you need to join that filename with the folder you're reading:

folder = "/home/ubuntu/Desktop/temp/poem"
for file in os.listdir(folder):
    print file
    filepath = os.path.join(folder, file)
    f = open(filepath, 'r')
    print f.read()
    f.close()

Upvotes: 10

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