Python concatenate text files

Question

I have a list of 20 file names, like [\'file1.txt\', \'file2.txt\', ...]. I want to write a Python script to concatenate these files into a new file. I could op

Answer 1

Check out the .read() method of the File object:

http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/inputoutput.html#methods-of-file-objects

You could do something like:

concat = ""
for file in files:
    concat += open(file).read()

or a more 'elegant' python-way:

concat = ''.join([open(f).read() for f in files])

which, according to this article: http://www.skymind.com/~ocrow/python_string/ would also be the fastest.