How to combine multiple csv files based on file name - python-3.x

Question

I have more than 1000 csv files , i want to combine where csv filename first five digits are same in to one csv file.
input:
100044566.csv
100040457.csv
100041458.csv
100034566.csv
100030457.csv
100031458.csv
100031459.csv
import pandas as pd
import os
import glob
path_1 =''
all_files_final = glob.glob(os.path.join(path_1, "*.csv"))
names_1 = [os.path.basename(x1) for x1 in all_files_final]
final = pd.DataFrame()
for file_1, name_1 in zip(all_files_final, names_1):
file_df_final = pd.read_csv(file_1,index_col=False)
#file_df['file_name'] = name
final = final.append(file_df_final)
final.to_csv('',index=False)
i used the above code but its merging all files in to one csv file , i dont know have to make selection based on the name
so from above input
output 1: combine first three csv files in one csv file because filename first five digits are same.
output 2: combine next 4 files in one csv files because filename first five digits are same.

Answer 1

I would recommend you to approach the problem slightly differently.
Here's my solution:
import os
import pandas as pd
files = os.listdir('.') # returns list of filenames in current folder
files_of_interest = {} # a dictionary that we will be using in future
for filename in files: # iterate over files in a folder
if filename[-4:] == '.csv': # check whether a file is of .csv format
key = filename[:5] # as you've mentioned in you question - first five characters of filename is of interest
files_of_interest.setdefault(key,[]) #if we dont have such key - .setdefault will create such key for us and assign empy list to it
files_of_interest[key].append(filename) # append to a list new filename
for key in files_of_interest:
buff_df = pd.DataFrame()
for filename in files_of_interest[key]:
buff_df= buff_df.append(pd.read_csv(filename)) # iterate over every filename for specific key in dictionary and appending it to buff_df
files_of_interest[key]=buff_df # replacing list of files by a data frame
This code will create a dictionary of dataframes. Where keys of the dictionary will be a set of first unique characters of .csv files.
Then you can iterate over keys of the dictionary to save every according dataframe as a .csv file.
Hope my answer helped.