Printing each file separately from a directory?

Question

I have a folder full of opinions in .txt files, i would like to read the complete folder and print each rawtext.txt in a format that let me read them one by one. How could i aproach this task?. Also when i read the complete folder with:

import os
DIR = r"/Users/user/Desktop/OpinionsTXT"
opiniones = [open(os.path.join(DIR, f)).read() for f in os.listdir(DIR)]
print opiniones

this is the output string:

f qu\xe9 suplicio, recordando cuando lo hab\xeda tenido que hacer durante unas

The texts are full of accents and spanish ortographic symbols, how to print them correctly?

possible duplicate of [How to list all files of a directory in Python](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3207219/how-to-list-all-files-of-a-directory-in-python) — Scott Hunter, Sep 17 '14 at 14:10
`for f in os.listdir(DIR): print open(os.path.join(DIR, f)).read() ` — falsetru, Sep 17 '14 at 14:11

mhawke · Answer 1 · 2014-09-17T14:23:14.153

What encoding is used for the files? It looks like ISO-8859-1.

In Python 2, for example, you can use .decode('iso-8859-1'), i.e.

import os
DIR = r"/Users/user/Desktop/OpinionsTXT"
opiniones = [open(os.path.join(DIR, f)).read().decode('iso-8859-1') for f in os.listdir(DIR)]
>>> print opiniones[0]   # note that opiniones is a list.
f qué suplicio, recordando cuando lo había tenido que hacer durante unas

Or you could open the file with the codecs module:

opiniones = [codecs.open(os.path.join(DIR, f), mode='r', encoding='iso-8859-1').read() for f in os.listdir(DIR)]

The above is for Python 2. For Python 3 you can specify the file encoding when you open the file using the encoding flag.

In python 2.6 or later, the io module (io.open) lets you specifiy encoding also. — tdelaney, Sep 17 '14 at 15:26

Printing each file separately from a directory?

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