Python Program to Find All Files with .txt Extension Present Inside a Directory – 2024

Hey guys, in this blog we will see a Python Program to Find All Files with .txt Extension Present Inside a Directory.

Example 1: Using glob

import glob, os

os.chdir("my_dir")

for file in glob.glob("*.txt"):
    print(file)

Output

file3.txt
file2.txt
file1.txt

  • Here we have used the glob() python package to get all the ‘.txt’ files.
  • We have used glob.glob(“*.txt”) to get a list of all “.txt” files.

Example 2: Using os.listdir()

import os

for file in os.listdir("my_dir"):
    if file.endswith(".txt"):
        print(file)

Output

file1.txt
file2.txt
file3.txt

  • Here we have used the os python package and a special string function endswith() to get all the ‘.txt’ files.

Example 3: Using os.walk()

import os

for root, dirs, files in os.walk("my_dir"):
    for file in files:
        if file.endswith(".txt"):
            print(file)

Output

file3.txt
file2.txt
file1.txt

  • It is also similar to the above method except for the fact here we are using os.walk() method.
  • It generates the file names in a directory tree by walking the tree either top-down or bottom-up. 

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Abhishek Sharma
Abhishek Sharma

Started my Data Science journey in my 2nd year of college and since then continuously into it because of the magical powers of ML and continuously doing projects in almost every domain of AI like ML, DL, CV, NLP.

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