> new_file = open('filename.txt', 'w')
> params = open('eggs.txt', 'r')
>       do all the python stuff here
> new_file.close()
> 
> If these files followed a naming convention such as 1.txt and 2.txt I
> can easily see how these could be parsed consecutively in a loop.
> However, they are not and so is it possible to modify this code such
> that I can tell python to parse all .txt files in a certain directory
> and then to save them as separate files? For instance, using the example
> above, python would parse both spam.txt and eggs.txt and then save 2
> different files, say as spam_parsed.txt and eggs_parsed.txt.


import os
for fname in os.listdir('.'):
   if not fname.lower().endswith('.txt'): continue
   new_file_name = '%s_parsed%s' % tuple(
   new_file = open(new_file_name, 'w')
   params = open(fname)
     # do all the python stuff here
   params.close()
   new_file.close()

-tkc

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