Question

So far my code is this :

from glob import glob
shakedir='D:\report\shakeall'
from shakedir import isfile
def countwords(fp):
   with open(fp) as fh:
       return len(fh.read().split())
print "There are" ,sum(map(countwords, filter(isfile, glob("*.txt") ) ) ), "words in the files."

The problem is this code doesn’t work 🙂

I’m not used to Python grammar, so I just tried anything.

What I want is, I want this script to import text files from specific directory.

Not from the os.path, where my .py file is.

I want to import from D:\report\shakeall and I can’t. That’s it.

Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

You can also use glob function alone for this purpose:

from glob import glob

pattern = "D:\\report\\shakeall\\*.txt"
filelist = glob(pattern)

and then do whatever you want on that filelist. Your way should work now:

def countwords(fp):
    with open(fp) as fh:
        return len(fh.read().split())

print "There are" ,sum(map(countwords, filelist))), "words in the files."