Read in all csv files from a directory using Python

Question

I hope this is not trivial but I am wondering the following:

If I have a specific folder with n csv files, how could I iteratively read all of

Answer 1

I think you look for something like this

import glob

for file_name in glob.glob(directoryPath+'*.csv'):
    x = np.genfromtxt(file_name,delimiter=',')[:,2]
    # do your calculations

Edit

If you want to get all csv files from a folder (including subfolder) you could use subprocess instead of glob (note that this code only works on linux systems)

import subprocess
file_list = subprocess.check_output(['find',directoryPath,'-name','*.csv']).split('\n')[:-1]

for i,file_name in enumerate(file_list):
    x = np.genfromtxt(file_name,delimiter=',')[:,2]
    # do your calculations
    # now you can use i as an index

It first searches the folder and sub-folders for all file_names using the find command from the shell and applies your calculations afterwards.