how to open the file with path name?

Question

I am trying to open the file using a path instead of file name I used glob.glob option to go and search in the path for an input file. Now I got struck with opening that. Any help would be appreciated.

import glob
a = (glob.glob("*/file.txt"))
with open (a, 'r') as f:

Trying to read the file.txt and I am getting error in line3. Any help would be appreciated.

Error: TypeError: expacted str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not list

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '20 at 20:15

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glob.glob returns a list of file paths. You will need to access one of the paths in the list, or iterate over them.

import glob

a = glob.glob("*/file.txt")
with open(a[0], 'r') as f:
    text= f.read()

answered Jul 20 '20 at 20:15

James

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It is still giving me error saying : (result, consumed) = sel._buffer_decode(data, self.error, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf - 8' code can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte. – user7090 Jul 20 '20 at 20:25
@user7090 Sounds like you might need to open the file as binary format (`'rb'` instead of `'r'`). – alani Jul 20 '20 at 20:31
@alaniwi Is it possible to open the file in read format instead of reading in binary format – user7090 Jul 20 '20 at 20:37

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '20 at 20:15

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glob.glob() returns a list. You need to loop through it, opening each file.

import glob

for filename in glob.glob("*/file.txt"):
    with open(filename, "r") as f:
        ...

answered Jul 20 '20 at 20:15

Barmar

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I am facing the same error as mentioned in the above comment – user7090 Jul 20 '20 at 20:33
That's completely unrelated. It's not a plain text file. – Barmar Jul 20 '20 at 21:16
Or you need to specify the encoding – Barmar Jul 20 '20 at 21:17
Will it read the data in the file.txt if we use glob.glob() option – user7090 Jul 20 '20 at 21:22
How you get the filename has nothing to do with how you read the file. – Barmar Jul 20 '20 at 21:24
Well, Actually I am trying to search the directories and read the text in the file.txt file – user7090 Jul 20 '20 at 21:26
That's obvious. I just mean that once you have a filename, it doesn't matter where it came from when you try to read the file. – Barmar Jul 20 '20 at 21:28
The error has nothing to do with the filename, it's about the contents of the file. It's not valid UTF-8 data. – Barmar Jul 20 '20 at 21:29
How can we resolve this error "Error: TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not list" – user7090 Jul 20 '20 at 21:33
That's what my answer fixes. – Barmar Jul 20 '20 at 21:34

how to open the file with path name?

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