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PyPDF2 or indentation issue - siten0308 - Apr-20-2018

Hello

i am trying to read each file from a directory, then read the text from the pdf file, however its giving me an error message, first below is the code:

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
import os

directory = os.listdir("C:\example")

for file in directory:
   if file.endswith(".pdf"):
    pfile = open("C:\example\\"+file,'rb')
	pdfFile = PdfFileReader(open(pfile)
	page = pdfFile.getPage(0)
	print(page.extractText())
and its giving me this error message:
Error:
C:\WSDL>Read_PDF.py
  File "C:\WSDL\Read_PDF.py", line 9
    pdfFile = PdfFileReader(open(pfile)
                                      ^
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
however if i change the code to this:

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
import os

directory = os.listdir("C:\example")

for file in directory:
   if file.endswith(".pdf"):
    pfile = open("C:\example\\"+file,'rb')
    print(pfile)
	#pdfFile = PdfFileReader(open(pfile)
	#page = pdfFile.getPage(0)
	#print(page.extractText())
this code works, so i am not sure if this PyPDF2 is having issues, i checked if it was installed and it is, i did a pip install PyPDF2 and it says its already installed.

so i am not sure if i am using PyPDF2 correclty? any help would be great.

RE: PyPDF2 or indentation issue - Larz60+ - Apr-20-2018

missing close parentheses line 9 as indicated in the error message.

RE: PyPDF2 or indentation issue - snippsat - Apr-20-2018

Also indentation always 4-space,never single \ that way in filename Windows.
You open file 2 times in first code.
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
import os

directory = os.listdir("E:/pdf/1")
for file in directory:
    if file.endswith(".pdf"):
        pfile = "E:/pdf/1/" + file
        pdfFile = PdfFileReader(open(pfile, 'rb'))
        page = pdfFile.getPage(0)
        print(page.extractText())


RE: PyPDF2 or indentation issue - siten0308 - Apr-20-2018

big thanks Snippsat you are correct :)thank you