How to traverse through the files in a directory?

Question

I have a directory logfiles. I want to process each file inside this directory using a Python script.

for file in directory:
      # do something
         


        

Answer 1

You could try glob:

import glob

for file in glob.glob('log-*-*.txt'):
  # Etc.

But glob doesn't work recursively (as far as I know), so if your logs are in folders inside of that directory, you'd be better off looking at what Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams posted.