subhabrata.bane...@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> I am trying to read a list of files as
> list_of_files = glob.glob('C:\Python27\*.*')
> Now I am trying to read each one of them,
> convert into list of words, and append to a list
> as.
>
> list1=[]
> for file in list_of_files:
> print file
> fread1=open(file,"r").read()
> fword=fread1.split()
> list1.append(fword)
>
> Here the list is a list of lists, but I want only one list not
> list of lists.
>
> I was thinking of stripping it as, str(list1).strip('[]')
>
> but in that case it would be converted to string.
>
> Is there a way to do it. I am using Python27 on Windows7 Professional.
> Apology for an indentation error.
>
> If anybody may please suggest.
You have to understand that the append() method always appends a single item
to the list, be that a string or a list or whatever. If you want to append
words in a list to the list the logical approach is therefore to loop over
the words and invoke append for every word
for word in fword:
list1.append(word)
There is also a dedicated extend() method that takes a list (actually an
iterable) and appends all items in that list:
list1.extend(fword)
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