I'm still relatively new to programming and Python. But I am sure this must be possible but my searches are not turning up what I'm looking for.
In my current directory, I have 6 PDF files that I wish to read in via the loop below.
What I would like to do is open each of the PDF's with a new variable name, as you can see it is imaginatively called pdf[1-6]File.pdf.
I can list the files in the console and pull them via the code when I stick breaks in to stop it executing but I can't for the life of me work out how to create the variable name. I thought something like "pdf" + str(i) + "File" would have worked but I'm missing something.
Code is below - not complete but enough so you get what I'm looking at:
#Open the PDF files in the current directory for
#reading in binary mode
def opensource():
listOfFiles = os.listdir('.')
pattern = "*.pdf"
for entry in listOfFiles:
if fnmatch.fnmatch(entry, pattern):
# Works to here perfectly
for i in range(len(entry)):
# print(len(entry))
# Trying to create the variable name with
# an incremental numeral in the file name
"pdf" + i + "File" = open(entry, 'rb')
This bit below is how I'm currently doing it and its a pain in the backside. I'm sure it can be done programmatically
#This is the old way. Monolithic and horrid
#Open the files that have to be merged one by one
pdf1File = open('file1.pdf', 'rb')
pdf2File = open('file2.pdf', 'rb')
pdf3File = open('file3.pdf', 'rb')
pdf4File = open('file4.pdf', 'rb')
pdf5File = open('file5.pdf', 'rb')
pdf6File = open('file6.pdf', 'rb')
All help gratefully received.
Thanks
If you are going to use the file pointer outside this for loop, you can very well use a dictionary to do that..
def opensource():
listOfFiles = os.listdir('.')
pattern = "*.pdf"
file_ptrs = {}
for entry in listOfFiles:
if fnmatch.fnmatch(entry, pattern):
# Works to here perfectly
for i in range(len(entry)):
# print(len(entry))
# Trying to create the variable name with
# an incremental numeral in the file name
file_ptrs["pdf" + str(i) + "File"] = open(entry, 'rb')
Caution: Its always advisable to use the open method alongside of a "with" clause in python.. it takes care of closing the file once the file operation goes out of context.
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I'm asking for help in trying to create a loop to make this script go through all files in a local directory. Currently I have this script working with a single HTML file, but would like it so it picks the first file in the directory and just loops until it gets to the last file in the directory.
Another way to help would be adding a line to the string would add a (1), (2), (3), etc. at the end if the names are duplicate.
Can anyone help with renaming thousands of files with a string that is parsed with BeautifulSoup4. Each file contains a name and reference number at the same position/line. Could be same name and reference number, or could be different reference number with same name.
import bs4, shutil, os
src_dir = os.getcwd()
print(src_dir)
dest_dir = os.mkdir('subfolder')
os.listdir()
dest_dir = src_dir+"/subfolder"
src_file = os.path.join(src_dir, 'example_filename_here.html')
shutil.copy(src_file, dest_dir)
exampleFile = open('example_filename_here.html')
exampleSoup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(exampleFile.read(), 'html.parser')
elems = exampleSoup.select('.bodycopy')
type(elems)
elems[2].getText()
dst_file = os.path.join(dest_dir, 'example_filename_here.html')
new_dst_file_name = os.path.join(dest_dir, elems[2].getText()+ '.html')
os.rename(dst_file, new_dst_file_name)
os.chdir(dest_dir)
print(elems[2].getText())
I am a little bit confused in how to read all lines in many files where the file names have format from "datalog.txt.98" to "datalog.txt.120".
This is my code:
import json
file = "datalog.txt."
i = 97
for line in file:
i+=1
f = open (line + str (i),'r')
for row in f:
print (row)
Here, you will find an example of one line in one of those files:
I need really to your help
I suggest using a loop for opening multiple files with different formats.
To better understand this project I would recommend researching the following topics
for loops,
String manipulation,
Opening a file and reading its content,
List manipulation,
String parsing.
This is one of my favourite beginner guides.
To set the parameters of the integers at the end of the file name I would look into python for loops.
I think this is what you are trying to do
# create a list to store all your file content
files_content = []
# the prefix is of type string
filename_prefix = "datalog.txt."
# loop from 0 to 13
for i in range(0,14):
# make the filename variable with the prefix and
# the integer i which you need to convert to a string type
filename = filename_prefix + str(i)
# open the file read all the lines to a variable
with open(filename) as f:
content = f.readlines()
# append the file content to the files_content list
files_content.append(content)
To get rid of white space from file parsing add the missing line
content = [x.strip() for x in content]
files_content.append(content)
Here's an example of printing out files_content
for file in files_content:
print(file)
I've read every thing I can find and tried about 20 examples from SO and google, and nothing seems to work.
This should be very simple, but I cannot get it to work. I just want to point to a folder, and replace every double quote in every file in the folder. That is it. (And I don't know Python well at all, hence my issues.) I have no doubt that some of the scripts I've tried to retask must work, but my lack of Python skill is getting in the way. This is as close as I've gotten, and I get errors. If I don't get errors it seems to do nothing. Thanks.
import glob
import csv
mypath = glob.glob('\\C:\\csv\\*.csv')
for fname in mypath:
with open(mypath, "r") as infile, open("output.csv", "w") as outfile:
reader = csv.reader(infile)
writer = csv.writer(outfile)
for row in reader:
writer.writerow(item.replace("""", "") for item in row)
You don't need to use csv-specific file opening and writing, I think that makes it more complex. How about this instead:
import os
mypath = r'\path\to\folder'
for file in os.listdir(mypath): # This will loop through every file in the folder
if '.csv' in file: # Check if it's a csv file
fpath = os.path.join(mypath, file)
fpath_out = fpath + '_output' # Create an output file with a similar name to the input file
with open(fpath) as infile
lines = infile.readlines() # Read all lines
with open(fpath_out, 'w') as outfile:
for line in lines: # One line at a time
outfile.write(line.replace('"', '')) # Remove each " and write the line
Let me know if this works, and respond with any error messages you may have.
I found the solution to this based on the original answer provided by u/Jeff. It was actually smart quotes (u'\u201d') to be exact, not straight quotes. That is why I could get nothing to work. That is a great way to spend like two days, now if you'll excuse me I have to go jump off the roof. But for posterity, here is what I used that worked. (And note - there is the left curving smart quote as well - that is u'\u201c'.
mypath = 'C:\\csv\\'
myoutputpath = 'C:\\csv\\output\\'
for file in os.listdir(mypath): # This will loop through every file in the folder
if '.csv' in file: # Check if it's a csv file
fpath = os.path.join(mypath, file)
fpath_out = os.path.join(myoutputpath, file) #+ '_output' # Create an output file with a similar name to the input file
with open(fpath) as infile:
lines = infile.readlines() # Read all lines
with open(fpath_out, 'w') as outfile:
for line in lines: # One line at a time
outfile.write(line.replace(u'\u201d', ''))# Remove each " and write the line
infile.close()
outfile.close()
I am using a microstacknode accelerometer and intend to save it into csv file.
while True:
numpy.loadtxt('foo.csv', delimiter=",")
raw = accelerometer.get_xyz(raw=True)
g = accelerometer.get_xyz()
ms = accelerometer.get_xyz_ms2()
a = numpy.asarray([[raw['x'],raw['y'],raw['z']]])
numpy.savetxt("foo.csv",a,delimiter=",",newline="\n")
However, the saving is only done on 1 line. Any help given? Still quite a noobie on python.
NumPy is not the best solution for this type of things.
This should do what you intend:
while True:
raw = accelerometer.get_xyz(raw=True)
fobj = open('foo.csv', 'a')
fobj.write('{},{},{}\n'.format(raw['x'], raw['y'], raw['z']))
fobj.close()
Here fobj = open('foo.csv', 'a') opens the file in append mode. So if the file already exists, the next writing will go to the end of file, keeping the data in the file.
Let's have look at your code. This line:
numpy.loadtxt('foo.csv', delimiter=",")
reads the whole file but doe not do anything with the at it read, because you don't assign to a variable. You would need to do something like this:
data = numpy.loadtxt('foo.csv', delimiter=",")
This line:
numpy.savetxt("foo.csv",a,delimiter=",",newline="\n")
Creates a new file with the name foo.csv overwriting the existing one. Therefore, you see only one line, the last one written.
This should do the same but dos not open and close the file all the time:
with open('foo.csv', 'a') as fobj:
while True:
raw = accelerometer.get_xyz(raw=True)
fobj.write('{},{},{}\n'.format(raw['x'], raw['y'], raw['z']))
The with open() opens the file with the promise to close it even in case of an exception. For example, if you break out of the while True loop with Ctrl-C.
First off i must say i am VERY new to programming (less then a week experience in total). I set out to write a program that generates a series of documents of an .odt template. I want to use a template with a specific keyword lets say "X1234X" and so on. This will then be replaced by values generated from the program. Each document is a little different and the values are entered and calculated via a prompt (dates and other things)
I wrote most of the code so far but i am stuck since 2 days on that problem. I used the ezodf module to generate a new document (with different filenames) from a template but i am stuck on how to edit the content.
I googled hard but came up empty hope someone here could help. I tried reading the documentations but i must be honest...its a bit tough to understand. I am not familiar with the "slang"
Thanks
PS: a ezodf method would be great, but any other ways will do too. The program doesnt have to be pretty it just has to work (so i can work less ^_^)
Well i figured it out. nd finished the program. I used a ezodf to create the file, then zipfile to extract and edit the content.xml and then repacked the whole thing via a nice >def thingy< from here. I tried to mess with etree...but i couldnt figure it out...
from ezodf import newdoc
import os
import zipfile
import tempfile
for s in temp2:
input2 = s
input2 = str(s)
input1 = cname[0]
file1 = '.odt'
namef = input2 + input1 + file1
odt = newdoc(doctype='odt', filename=namef, template='template.odt')
odt.save()
a = zipfile.ZipFile('template.odt')
content = a.read('content.xml')
content = str(content.decode(encoding='utf8'))
content = str.replace(content,"XXDATEXX", input2)
content = str.replace(content, 'XXNAMEXX', input1)
def updateZip(zipname, filename, data):
# generate a temp file
tmpfd, tmpname = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=os.path.dirname(zipname))
os.close(tmpfd)
# create a temp copy of the archive without filename
with zipfile.ZipFile(zipname, 'r') as zin:
with zipfile.ZipFile(tmpname, 'w') as zout:
zout.comment = zin.comment # preserve the comment
for item in zin.infolist():
if item.filename != filename:
zout.writestr(item, zin.read(item.filename))
# replace with the temp archive
os.remove(zipname)
os.rename(tmpname, zipname)
# now add filename with its new data
with zipfile.ZipFile(zipname, mode='a', compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) as zf:
zf.writestr(filename, data)
updateZip(namef, 'content.xml', content)