Python giving FileNotFoundError for file name returned by os.listdir
It is because os.listdir
does not return the full path to the file, only the filename part; that is 'foo.txt'
, when open would want 'E:/somedir/foo.txt'
because the file does not exist in the current directory.
Use os.path.join
to prepend the directory to your filename:
path = r'E:/somedir'
for filename in os.listdir(path):
with open(os.path.join(path, filename)) as f:
... # process the file
(Also, you are not closing the file; the with
block will take care of it automatically).
os.listdir(directory)
returns a list of file names in directory
. So unless directory
is your current working directory, you need to join those file names with the actual directory to get a proper absolute path:
for filename in os.listdir(path):
filepath = os.path.join(path, filename)
f = open(filepath,'r')
raw = f.read()
# ...