How to open every file in a folder

Os

You can list all files in the current directory using os.listdir:

import os
for filename in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
   with open(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), filename), 'r') as f: # open in readonly mode
      # do your stuff

Glob

Or you can list only some files, depending on the file pattern using the glob module:

import glob
for filename in glob.glob('*.txt'):
   with open(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), filename), 'r') as f: # open in readonly mode
      # do your stuff

It doesn’t have to be the current directory you can list them in any path you want:

path = '/some/path/to/file'
for filename in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, '*.txt')):
   with open(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), filename), 'r') as f: # open in readonly mode
      # do your stuff

Pipe Or you can even use the pipe as you specified using fileinput

import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input():
    # do your stuff

And you can then use it with piping:

ls -1 | python parse.py