Strange behavior while using glob?

[PythonNewbie]

Hello, so I needed to write a quick code that lets me merge whole bunch of text files in a given folder into one text file.

So, I wrote this up after reading about glob
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import glob
#########Enter the directory where your files are located #######

dirpath ='C:/All_Spot_Spectra/Spots/*'
################################################## #####
w=open('C:/All_Spot_Spectra/merge.txt','w')
fileArray=glob.glob(dirpath)
numFiles=len(fileArray)
print numFiles

for i in range(numFiles):
f=open(fileArray[i],'r')
line=f.readline()
while line!="":
line=f.readline()
print line
w.write(line)

w.flush()
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Great - it worked just fine. However, when my coworker tried to use it - it did not work. After some debugging, I found out that his directory path had directories which were numbers and that seems to fail with glob. So, for instance, in the original code If I make,

dirpath ='C:/All_Spot_Spectra/2007/*'

it no longer works.

Funny thing is that this does not happen on my laptop which has Windows XP HE. The problem occurs on the computer that has Windows XP Professional.

Puzzled.

[PythonNewbie]

Err, my windows version is Windows XP Media Center Edition. It works on that.

Anyhow, can someone suggest how I can fix this? Maybe, some alternative to glob?

[ghostdog74]

untested:

import glob,os
dirpath = os.path.join("C:\\","All_Spot_Spectra","Spots")
mergetxt = os.path.join("C:\\","All_Spot_Spectra","merge.txt")
w=open(mergetxt,'a') #if you want to merge, use "a" for append
os.chdir(dirpath)
for fi in glob.glob("*.txt"):
        f=open(fi).read()
        w.write(f)
w.close()
 

[PythonNewbie]

Thank you that works. Now, if I could only figure out how to deal with \

[ghostdog74]

Thank you that works. Now, if I could only figure out how to deal with \

where is "\" that you are talking about

[PythonNewbie]

I got it figured out. I had started a separate post for it. Someone suggested using raw string when I get input which works like a charm. Thanks a lot - my code is lot cleaner now.