Iterate through files

python pathlib
FooBar picture FooBar · May 21, 2014 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

I'm trying to adapt someone's code for my (Windows 7) purposes. His is unfortunately UNIX specific. He does

dir_ = pathlib.PosixPath(str(somePathVariable))
os.chdir(str(dir_))
for pth in dir_:        
    # some operations here

Running this, I got (not surprisingly)

NotImplementedError: cannot instantiate 'PosixPath' on your system

I looked into the documentation for pathlib and thought yeah, I should just be able to change PosixPath to Path and I would be fine. Well, then dir_ generates a WindowsPath object. So far, so good. However, I get 

TypeError: 'WindowsPath' object is not iterable

pathlib is at version 1.0, what am I missing? The purpose is to iterate through files in the specific directory. Googling this second error gave 0 hits.

Remark: Could not use pathlib as a tag, hence I put it into the title.

Update

I have Python 2.7.3 and pathlib 1.0

Answer

Alex Shkop picture Alex Shkop · May 21, 2014

I guess you should use Path.iterdir(). 

for pth in dir_.iterdir():

    #Do your stuff here

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