How to search files with multiple extensions in a specific path using python

Question

I have written a small python code to read specific files containing .txt from the specific path. I would like to do the same thing to search for files with multiple extensions more or less with the same code with little modifications. Ofcourse, I am not looking for / which will search all the extensions. Any help would be appreciated.

varlogpath = "C:/Users/vveldand/Office/Fetcher/Projects/LOG-PARSER/var/log/*.txt"

outputfile = open(wrfilename, "a")
files=glob.glob(varlogpath)

What exactly do you mean by multiple extensions? – CodeCollector Dec 14 '17 at 07:12 — CodeCollector, Dec 14 '17 at 07:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '17 at 07:18

you could do something like this:

files=None
# put file extensions into a list
fileext=[".txt",".log",".csv"]

for ext in fileext:
    varlogpath = "C:/Users/vveldand/Office/Fetcher/Projects/LOG-
    PARSER/var/log/*"+ext

    outputfile = open(wrfilename, "a")
    files=glob.glob(varlogpath)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 14 '17 at 07:16

wrfilename = os.path.join(wrscriptpath, 'TiC_Timeline_Report.txt')
varlogpath = "C:/Users/vveldand/Office/Fetcher/Projects/LOG-PARSER/var/log/*.txt"

outputfile = open(wrfilename, "a")
files=[glob.glob(varlogpath.replace(".txt",ext)) for ext in list_of_extensions_you_want_to_search]

How to search files with multiple extensions in a specific path using python

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