How to display filenames of word documents in a folder using python?

Question

I want to display the filenames of word document present in a specified path using python.

Asked By: JUSTIN

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Answer 1

this could work for you:

for file in os.listdir(PATH):
    if file.endswith(".doc") or file.endswith(".docx"):
        print(file)

Answered By: sxeros

Answer 2

It could be just as simple as creating a custom iterator using scandir passing the file extension (for word documents you can use docx). Like this:

import os
from typing import Type, Iterable


def scan_dir(path, file_ext) -> Iterable[Type[os.DirEntry]]:
    for dir_entry in os.scandir(path):
        if dir_entry.name.endswith(f'.{file_ext}'): yield dir_entry


if __name__ == '__main__':
    for word_doc in scan_dir('.', 'docx'):
        print(word_doc.name)

Answered By: Hernan

Answer 3

An alternative for @sxeros approach 🙂

import os

PATH = "your path"

files = list(filter(lambda s: ".doc" in s or ".docx" in s, os.listdir(PATH)))

print(files)

Answered By: CCebrian

Answer 4

Two options:

1: `glob` with regular expression

The glob library is great for something like this (documentation):

import os
from glob import glob

word_docs = glob(os.path.join(PATH, "*.doc*"))

2: conditional list concatenation

This does everything using os library alone:

import os

word_docs = [wd for wd in os.listdir(PATH) if wd.endswith(".docx") or wd.endswith(".doc")]

Answered By: Henry03

How to display filenames of word documents in a folder using python?

Question:

Answers:

1: `glob` with regular expression

2: conditional list concatenation

How to display filenames of word documents in a folder using python?

Question:

Answers:

1: glob with regular expression

2: conditional list concatenation

1: `glob` with regular expression