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Rafaelpsmed
Rafaelpsmed

Reputation: 67

Python - Use a list of string to search for folders names

I have a list of strings (stored in a .txt file, one string per line) and I want to make a script that takes the first line and search all folders names in a directory, and the takes the second line and search all folders names and so on. How do I do this? Hope i made my self clear. Thks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 801

Answers (2)

Nurjan
Nurjan

Reputation: 6053

Assuming that by searching all folders you mean printing them out to the standard output you can do this:

from os import listdir
from os.path import isdir, join


with open('directories.txt', 'r') as f:
    i = 1
    for line in f.readlines():
        directories = []
        tmp = line.strip('\n')
        for d in listdir(tmp):
            if isdir(join(tmp, d)):
                directories.append(d)
        print('directory {}: {}'.format(i, directories))
        i += 1

It will output something like this:

directory 1: ['subfolder_1', 'subfolder_0']
directory 2: ['subfolder_0']
directory 3: []

Note that I recommend using with in order to open files since it will automatically properly close them even if exceptions occur.

Upvotes: 1

elusivenode
elusivenode

Reputation: 41

This example reads paths from text file and prints them out. Replace the print with your search logic.

import os

textfile = open('C:\\folder\\test.txt', 'r')

for line in textfile:
    rootdir = line.strip()
    for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk(rootdir):
        for file in files:
            print(os.path.join(subdir, file))

Upvotes: 1

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