reading all the text files from directory

Question

I am new to python and I am using following code to pull output as sentiment analysis:

import json
from watson_developer_cloud import ToneAnalyzerV3Beta
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Answer 1

glob returns a list of files, you need to iterate over the list, open each file and then call .read on the file object:

files = glob.glob(path)
# iterate over the list getting each file 
for fle in files:
   # open the file and then call .read() to get the text 
   with open(fle) as f:
      text = f.read()

Not sure what it is exactly you want to write but the csv lib will do it:

from csv import writer

files = glob.glob(path)
# iterate over the list getting each file
for fle in files:
   # open the file and then call .read() to get the text
   with open(fle) as f, open("{}.csv".format(fle.rsplit(".", 1)[1]),"w") as out:
       text = f.read()
       wr = writer(out) 
       data = tone_analyzer.tone(text='text')
       wr.writerow(["some", "column" ,"names"]) # write the col names

Then call writerow passing a list of whatever you want to write for each row.