On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:26:45AM -0700, Paulo Quaglio wrote:
> Hi everyone -
> I'm beginning to learn how to program in python. I need to
> process several text files simultaneously. The program needs to
> open several files (like a corpus) and output the total number
> of words. I can do that with just one file but not the whole
> directory. I tried glob but it didn't work. Your ideas are
> greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Here is a pattern that you might use (if I understand your problem
correctly):
import glob
names = glob.glob('*.txt')
for name in names:
infile = open(name, 'r')
etc. etc
infile.close()
Dave
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