Python - doc to docx file converter input, file path from a txt file

Question

Hi stackoverflow community,

Situation,
I'm trying to run this converter found from here,
However what I want is for it to read an array of file path from a text file and convert them.

Reason being, these file path are filtered manually, so I don't have to convert unnecessary files. There are a large amount of unnecessary files in the folder.

How can I go about with this? Thank you.

Faraaz Kurawle · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-21T12:53:45.547

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with open("file_path",'r') as file_content:
    content=file_content.read()
content=content.split('\n')

You can read the data of the file using the method above, Then covert the data of file into a list(or any other iteratable data type) so that we can use it with for loop.I used content=content.split('\n') to split the data of content by '\n' (Every time you press enter key, a new line character '\n' is sended), you can use any other character to split.

for i in content:
   # the code you want to execute

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edited Feb 21 '22 at 12:53

answered Feb 21 '22 at 06:24

Faraaz Kurawle

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Thank you for the reply, it helped me towards the right direction, however i'm getting an error, TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not list – haste556 Feb 21 '22 at 07:08
Glad I could help you, and for your TypeError, i have edited my answer, hope this gets it solved. – Faraaz Kurawle Feb 21 '22 at 12:48
that error was because i forgot to add `.read` method by which we take all data in file. – Faraaz Kurawle Feb 21 '22 at 12:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '22 at 06:53

By looking at your situation, I guess this is what you want (to only convert certain file in a directory), in which you don't need an extra '.txt' file to process:

import os

for f in os.listdir(path):
    if f.startswith("Prelim") and f.endswith(".doc"):
        convert(f)

But if for some reason you want to stick with the ".txt" processing, this may help:

with open("list.txt") as f:
    lines = f.readlines()
    for line in lines:
        convert(line)

Python - doc to docx file converter input, file path from a txt file

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