FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: error

Question

I'm looping through many folders to get any JSON file in each folder using the following code:

def get_all_jobs():
    for root_dir, _, file_names in os.walk(r'path'):
        for file_name in file_names:
            if file_name.endswith('.json'):
                all_files = (f'{root_dir}/{file_name}')
                for file in all_files:
                    with open(file_name, 'r', encoding="utf8") as json_file:
                        read_content = json.loads(json_file.read())

and I get this error :

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:

and don't have one path to one folder to give but I have many folders in which I have the files. How can I solve this?

you can use glob module to escape all the directories and take just files ending with .json. check this related answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/50721824/6798902 — Murali, Aug 05 '19 at 10:26
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`for file in all_files` will iterate over the characters in the string created in the line above it. — N Chauhan, Aug 05 '19 at 10:31

Murali · Answer 1 · 2019-08-06T10:48:11.707

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find the information about glob here. glob will escape all the inside directories and match our pattern recursively.

def get_all_jobs():    
    for json_file in glob.iglob(path+"/**/*.json".replace('/',os.path.sep),recursive=True):
        with open(json_file, 'r', encoding="utf8") as jf:
            read_content = json.loads(jf.read())

Note: here path is the base directory where you have multiple folders which has your json files.

Explanation :

Here glob goes to your base directory path , from there recursively it goes to all sub folders and checks if any file contains .json extension, If it has, then it gives complete path of that file.

edited Aug 06 '19 at 10:48

answered Aug 05 '19 at 10:35

Murali

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I still get the same error because I don't have just one path to the files. I have a path to a folder which contains many folders, and each folder has another folder that has the files. so I can't give a path here "for json_file in glob.iglob(path+"/**/*.json".replace('/',os.path.sep),recursive=True" – RIG Code Aug 05 '19 at 11:43
you don't need to provide path for individual files, in my code 'path' is a base directory which has multiple folders and multiple jsons. so /**/ will wildcard all the sub directories and *.json will wildcard the filenames. so in the end you will get complete path to a json file in json_file. – Murali Aug 06 '19 at 07:47
i used the code you provided and i still didn't fix the error "No such file or directory:" my code def get_all_jobs(): for root_dir, _, file_names in os.walk(path): for file_name in file_names: if file_name.endswith('.json'): all_files = (f'{root_dir}/{file_name}') for json_file in glob.iglob(r'path'"/**/*.json".replace('/',os.path.sep),recursive=True): with open(file_name, 'r', encoding="utf8") as jf: read_content = json.loads(jf.read()) print(read_content) – RIG Code Aug 06 '19 at 09:39
You don't have to use os.walk and checking if it ends with .json also, I'm editing my answer. I assume 'path' is your base directory? – Murali Aug 06 '19 at 10:44
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FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: error

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