How to read all files in a directory using python

Question

I have a directory with lot of text files. I want to read each text file in the directory and perform some kind of search operation. I take directory name as a command line argument. The error I'm getting is IsADirectoryError. Is there anyway we can make this work without any other module?

This is my code:

a = sys.argv
files = a[1:-1]

for i in files:
    print(i)
    f = open(i,'rb')
    for line in f:
        try:
            for word in line.split():
            '''Rest of code here'''

Martin answer it quite well! Check [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/3207973/4083200) out :) — Pouyan, Oct 02 '17 at 16:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 02 '17 at 16:44

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try this code

def read_files_from_dir(dirname):
    for _file in os.listdir(dirname):
        with open(os.path.join(dirname,_file), "r") as fp:
            print fp.read()

answered Oct 02 '17 at 16:44

Sabari jagadeesan

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How to read all files in a directory using python

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