My python code works correctly in the below example. My code combines a directory of CSV files and matches the headers. However, I want to take it a step further - how do I add a column that appends the filename of the CSV that was used?
import pandas as pd
import glob
globbed_files = glob.glob("*.csv") #creates a list of all csv files
data = [] # pd.concat takes a list of dataframes as an agrument
for csv in globbed_files:
frame = pd.read_csv(csv)
data.append(frame)
bigframe = pd.concat(data, ignore_index=True) #dont want pandas to try an align row indexes
bigframe.to_csv("Pandas_output2.csv")
This should work:
import os
for csv in globbed_files:
frame = pd.read_csv(csv)
frame['filename'] = os.path.basename(csv)
data.append(frame)
frame['filename']
creates a new column named filename
and os.path.basename()
turns a path like /a/d/c.txt
into the filename c.txt
.