[Tutor] a quick Q: how to use for loop to read a series of files with .doc end

[Marc Tompkins]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:48 AM, lina <lina.lastname at gmail.com> wrote:

>     if os.path.isfile(fileName) and os.path.splitext(fileName)[1]==".xpm":
>         filedata = open(fileName)
>         text=filedata.readlines()
>         for line in text[0:]:
>             result.append({t:line.strip().count(t) for t in tokens})
>         for index,r in enumerate(result):
>            outfiledata=open("fileName.txt","w").write(index,"-----",r)
> I still have problem using the value of the fileName,
>
> here the output is fileName.txt, not $fileName.txt which is supposed to be
> 1.txt following input 1.xpm
>

That's because in this line:

>            outfiledata=open("fileName.txt","w").write(index,"-----",r)
>
you put "fileName.txt" in quotes - which makes it a literal, not a variable.


Try this:

>            outfiledata=open(os.path.splitext(fileName)[0] +
> ".txt","w").write(index,"-----",r)
>

(in other words, split fileName, take just the first part, and add ".txt" to
the end of it.)
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