Unable to open files without file extension

[pstarrett]

I am working with the Enron emails and they do not have a file extension. I can get the first set of code to work but I cannot in the second (see error I am getting there):

This code works (cwd stands for current working directory):
for file in glob.glob(cwd + "/*" ):
    f = open(file, "r")
    print(f.read())


This same code as used below does not work. I get a 'permission denied' error since, I believe, the function is trying to access the dir itself rather than the files within it. Note that I have also tried using a 'if file.endswith("*.*")' but this will not recognize the files since there is no extension:

for dirpath, dirs, files in os.walk(cwd):
    for file in glob.glob(dirpath + "/*"): # I have also tried this as 'for file in glob.glob("/*")' and 'for file in glob.glob("*")'
        path = os.path.join(dirpath, file)
        print(os.getcwd())
        f = open(file, "r")
        text = f.read()
        f.close()


Any idea on how to get this to work would be appreciated.

[wavic]

I can get the first set of code to work but I cannot in the second (see error I am getting there):

You missed to post the error you get. Please, give us the full traceback.

You should use the code tags.

victor@jerry:/media/storage/Audio $ import glob

victor@jerry:/media/storage/Audio $ import pprint

victor@jerry:/media/storage/Audio $ pprint.pprint(glob.glob("*.mp3"))

["n'to   -trauma (worakls remix).mp3"]

You don't provide the right arguments for glob.glob().

victor@jerry:/media/storage/Audio $ help(glob.glob)
Help on function glob in module glob:

glob(pathname, *, recursive=False)
    Return a list of paths matching a pathname pattern.
    
    The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la
    fnmatch. However, unlike fnmatch, filenames starting with a
    dot are special cases that are not matched by '*' and '?'
    patterns.
    
    If recursive is true, the pattern '**' will match any files and
    zero or more directories and subdirectories.

In your case it should be glob.glob(cwd, "*")

[pstarrett]

Thank you for the answer and it is in the direction but ultimately got me to the right place. I am using Python 3.4 right now so that version of the glob library is used in 3.5. I am required to use the os.walk version - future reviewers of this post will find the below link very useful for this issue in either version of Python:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21865...-in-python

[wavic]

Why are you using os.walk and then glob.glob() bellow since os.walk() is good enough to get the files. But it run thru all the directories.

import os.path

for root_dir, dir, files in os.walk(top_dir):
    if os.path.abspath(top_dir) != os.path.abspath(root_dir):
        break

    if files:
        for file in files:
            print(file)

This will print the file names in all top_dir directory and is going to stop once it attend to go to another dir in the tree.

And why does your post is not in "Homework"?