I am trying to read multiple folders for a specific text file using glob.glob to search in all folders. I wanted to print only the folder name instead of folder name/file.txt.
with open ('input.txt', 'w') as i:
for files in glob.glob ('*/*.txt'):
print (files)
I want my output to be like
folder1
folder2
folder3
instead of
folder1/file.txt
folder2/file2.txt
I saw many posts where they used os.path....which I did understand clearly
Solve this with string functions. Try this code.
with open ('input.txt', 'w') as i:
for files in glob.glob ('*/*.txt'):
print(files.split("/")[0])
Explanation:
We are splitting the filename with / character. This results in a list with two items folder_name and file_name. Using indexing, we are fetching the first item with index 0.
To test this try below code -
a = [ "folder1/file.txt", "folder2/file.txt"]
for item in a:
print(item.split("/")[0])
os.path.dirname.