How to open every file in a folder

You should try using os.walk.

import os

yourpath = 'path'

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(yourpath, topdown=False):
    for name in files:
        print(os.path.join(root, name))
        stuff
    for name in dirs:
        print(os.path.join(root, name))
        stuff

You can actually just use os module to do both:

1. list all files in a folder
2. sort files by file type, file name etc.

Here’s a simple example:

import os #os module imported here
location = os.getcwd() # get present working directory location here
counter = 0 #keep a count of all files found
csvfiles = [] #list to store all csv files found at location
filebeginwithhello = [] # list to keep all files that begin with 'hello'
otherfiles = [] #list to keep any other file that do not match the criteria

for file in os.listdir(location):
    try:
        if file.endswith(".csv"):
            print "csv file found:t", file
            csvfiles.append(str(file))
            counter = counter+1

        elif file.startswith("hello") and file.endswith(".csv"): #because some files may start with hello and also be a csv file
            print "csv file found:t", file
            csvfiles.append(str(file))
            counter = counter+1

        elif file.startswith("hello"):
            print "hello files found: t", file
            filebeginwithhello.append(file)
            counter = counter+1

        else:
            otherfiles.append(file)
            counter = counter+1
    except Exception as e:
        raise e
        print "No files found here!"

print "Total files found:t", counter

Now you have not only listed all the files in a folder but also have them (optionally) sorted by starting name, file type and others. Just now iterate over each list and do your stuff.

I was looking for this answer:

import os,glob
folder_path = '/some/path/to/file'
for filename in glob.glob(os.path.join(folder_path, '*.htm')):
  with open(filename, 'r') as f:
    text = f.read()
    print (filename)
    print (len(text))

you can choose as well ‘*.txt’ or other ends of your filename

import pyautogui
import keyboard
import time
import os
import pyperclip

os.chdir("target directory")

# get the current directory
cwd=os.getcwd()

files=[]

for i in os.walk(cwd):
    for j in i[2]:
        files.append(os.path.abspath(j))

os.startfile("C:Program Files (x86)AdobeAcrobat 11.0AcrobatAcrobat.exe")
time.sleep(1)


for i in files:
    print(i)
    pyperclip.copy(i)
    keyboard.press('ctrl')
    keyboard.press_and_release('o')
    keyboard.release('ctrl')
    time.sleep(1)

    keyboard.press('ctrl')
    keyboard.press_and_release('v')
    keyboard.release('ctrl')
    time.sleep(1)
    keyboard.press_and_release('enter')
    keyboard.press('ctrl')
    keyboard.press_and_release('p')
    keyboard.release('ctrl')
    keyboard.press_and_release('enter')
    time.sleep(3)
    keyboard.press('ctrl')
    keyboard.press_and_release('w')
    keyboard.release('ctrl')
    pyperclip.copy('')

The code below reads for any text files available in the directory which contains the script we are running. Then it opens every text file and stores the words of the text line into a list. After store the words we print each word line by line

import os, fnmatch

listOfFiles = os.listdir('.')
pattern = "*.txt"
store = []
for entry in listOfFiles:
    if fnmatch.fnmatch(entry, pattern):
        _fileName = open(entry,"r")
        if _fileName.mode == "r":
            content = _fileName.read()
            contentList = content.split(" ")
            for i in contentList:
                if i != 'n' and i != "rn":
                    store.append(i)

for i in store:
    print(i)

If you would like to open files in a directory and append them into a list, do this:

mylist=[]
for filename in os.listdir('path/here/'):
with open(os.path.join('path/here/', filename), 'r') as f:
    mylist.append(f.read())

you may try another approach of using os.walk and os.path.join which is a little different from the above options:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(EnterYourPath):
    for name in files:
        with open(os.path.join(root,name))as f:
            text = f.read()

text variable includes all the files in the folder in the directory.