How to read and write multiple files?

Question

I want to write a program for this: In a folder I have n number of files; first read one file and perform some operation then store result in a separate file. Then

Answer 1

Combined answer incorporating directory or specific list of filenames arguments:

import sys
import os.path
import glob

def processFile(filename):
    fileHandle = open(filename, "r")
    for line in fileHandle:
        # do some processing
        pass
    fileHandle.close()

def outputResults(filename):
    output_filemask = "out"
    fileHandle = open("%s.%s" % (filename, output_filemask), "w")
    # do some processing
    fileHandle.write('processed\n')
    fileHandle.close()

def processFiles(args):
    input_filemask = "log"
    directory = args[1]
    if os.path.isdir(directory):
        print "processing a directory"
        list_of_files = glob.glob('%s/*.%s' % (directory, input_filemask))
    else:
        print "processing a list of files"
        list_of_files = sys.argv[1:]

    for file_name in list_of_files:
        print file_name
        processFile(file_name)
        outputResults(file_name)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if (len(sys.argv) > 1):
        processFiles(sys.argv)
    else:
        print 'usage message'