I have a text file with a couple hundred file paths to text files which I would like to open, write / cut up pieces from it and save under a new name.
I've been Googling how to do this and found the module glob, but I can't figure out exactly how to use this.
Could you guys point me in the right direction?
If you have specific paths to files, you won't need to glob module. The glob module is useful when you want to use path like /user/home/someone/pictures/*.jpg. From what I understand you have a file with normal paths.
You can use this code as a start:
with open('file_with_paths', 'r') as paths_list:
for file_path in paths_list:
with open(file_path, 'r') as file:
# Do what you want with one of the files here.
current working directory. If the paths in your file_with_paths are relative to the directory in which you run your python script.py than it should be all right. You can check your current working directory with os.getcwd() and you can change it with os.chdir(). Check if those directories are what you expect.open function, if given a non-absolute path to files tries to open the file by combining result of os.getcwd() with what you give it as an argument. That's why it's important to make sure that os.getcwd() + '/' + file_path makes sense.file_path.strip() to the open function. strip() removes whitespace from the beginning and end of the string, so it'll get rid of the \n.You can just traverse the file line by line and then take out what you want from that name. Later save/create it . Below sample code might help
with open('file_name') as f:
for file_path in f:
import os
file_name = os.path.basename(file_path)
absolute path = os.path.dirname(file_path)
# change whatever you want to with above two and save the file
# os.makedirs to create directry
# os.open() in write mode to create the file
Let me know if it helps you
