How to skip files that have no data in them in folder?

Question

I have a folder, with 1000s of txt files. My code is working perfectly fine if there is data in the file.

Is there anyway to build logic in my code to check if the file is empty, and if empty to skip to the next one?

import glob

import os


path = 'path/to/file'


for filename in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, '*.txt')):
  with open(filename, 'r',encoding='ISO-8859-1') as f:
    print(filename)
    text = f.read()
    do other stuff

Probably helps to clarify that the boolean of an empty list is `False` — rahlf23, Jul 30 '18 at 17:56
@zondo where do your lines go? I put them below the f.read() and the code stops after printing file name — RustyShackleford, Jul 30 '18 at 17:57
@rahlf23 where do your lines go? I put them below the f.read() and the code stops after printing file name — RustyShackleford, Jul 30 '18 at 17:57
@RustyShackleford: It would go before the `f.read()`, although as long as you have that there anyway, it would be better just to put `if not text: continue` right after that line. — zondo, Jul 30 '18 at 17:57
If you're reading the file contents anyway, you can skip the file if the contents are the empty string: `if not text: continue`. — mkrieger1, Jul 30 '18 at 17:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '18 at 17:57

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So you want to continue to the next file if its text is empty? Easy enough:

if not text: continue

answered Jul 30 '18 at 17:57

Kevin

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