[Tutor] glob in order of the file numbers

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)
> <emadnawfal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Tutors,
> > suppose I have four files in the current directory: 1.temp, 2.temp,
> 3.temp,
> > and 4.temp. I want to use glob, or anything else, to print the contents
> of
> > the files in their respective orders, where the content of 1.temp gets
> > printed, then 2.temp, then 3.temp, then 4.temp.
> > I write the following, but it does not get me what I want:
> >
> > import glob
> > for path in glob.iglob("*.temp"):
> >     infile = open(path)
> >     for line in infile:
> >         print line.strip()
>
> Since you know the file names, just build the names directly:
>
> for i in range(1, 5):
>  path = '%s.temp' % i
>  print open(path).read()
>
> Kent
>


Thank you all for the solutions. I had figured out Kent's solution before,
so thank you for letting me know that I did it right.
So, glob just creates a list of the file names.
Thank you all again.
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