Open file by filename wildcard

Question

I have a directory of text files that all have the extension .txt. My goal is to print the contents of the text file. I wish to be able use the wildcard *

Answer 1

You can use the glob module to get a list of files for wildcards:

File Wildcards

Then you just do a for-loop over this list and you are done:

filepath = "F:\irc\as\*.txt"
txt = glob.glob(filepath)
for textfile in txt:
  f = open(textfile, 'r') #Maybe you need a os.joinpath here, see Uku Loskit's answer, I don't have a python interpreter at hand
  for line in f:
    print line,