Python - open text file, but specify name when executing command
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I have a directory of text files that all end in the extension .txt My goal is to print the contents of the text file. I wish to be able use the wildcard *.txt to be able to specific the text file name I wish to open (I'm thinking along the lines of something like "F:\text*.txt" ?), split the lines of the text file, then print the output.
Here is an example of what I want to do, but I want to be able to change "somefile" when executing my command.
f = open('F:\text\somefile.txt', 'r')
for line in f:
print line,
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