Using Python to execute a command on every file in a folder

Question

I\'m trying to create a Python script that would :

1. Look into the folder \"/input\"
2. For each video in that folder, run a mencoder command (to transcode

Answer 1

To find all the filenames use os.listdir().

Then you loop over the filenames. Like so:

import os
for filename in os.listdir('dirname'):
     callthecommandhere(blablahbla, filename, foo)

If you prefer subprocess, use subprocess. :-)