Merging PDF files starting with similar names in a directory

Question

I have several PDF files located in a folder on my Desktop called Highlighted and stored the path of this directory into a variable called filePath.

Given a list of actor names called actorList, I want to merge all the PDFs starting with similar names (e.g., Adam, Sandler) in the filePath directory, separately (please see the image below).

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import os
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger

actorList = ['Adam, Sandler', 'Daniel, Craig', 'Jennifer, Aniston']
filePath  = r'C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\Highlighted' + '\\'
fileList  = []

for actorName in actorList:
   for path, currentDirectory, files in os.walk(filePath):
      for fileName in files:
         if fileName.startswith(actorName):
            fileList.append(fileName)

# Append & Merge all PDFs starting with similar names 
merger = PdfFileMerger()
for actorName in actorList:
    for fileName in fileList:
        if actorName not in fileName:
            continue
        merger.append(filePath + fileName)
    merger.write(filePath + actorName + '.pdf')
    merger.close()

I have tried all methods here, but had no luck! Any thoughts please??

GeekyCoder · Answer 1 · 2020-10-28T17:29:58.657

The problem was solved after moving the merger inside the outer for loop. I was getting the NoneType error, because the merger was not initialized after each time it was getting closed by merger.close().

# merger = PdfFileMerger()   =====> move the PdfFileMerger() from OUTSIDE
    for actorName in actorList:                                       
        merger = PdfFileMerger() # <===== to INSIDE
        for fileName in fileList:
            if actorName not in fileName:
                continue
            merger.append(filePath + fileName)
        merger.write(filePath + actorName + '.pdf')
        merger.close()

Merging PDF files starting with similar names in a directory

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