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

If you need to check for multiple file types, use

glob.glob("*.jpg") + glob.glob("*.png")

Glob doesn't care about the ordering of the files in the list. If you need files sorted by filename, use

sorted(glob.glob("*.jpg"))