How to call a specific text file by giving only its name(not by giving full path for reading the file) from sub-directories in python?

Question

I want to read the specific text file by giving only its name(not full path) from the folder containing multiple sub-directories, in order to compare and merge the text files.

How to can I read the specific file using pandas ?

Answer 1

You can use walk to search for the file and then work with it

import os
name = "Name of your file"
root= './' #Assuming you will search from current directory, you can give any path = []

for dirpath, subdirs, files in os.walk(root):
    for x in files:
        if x==name:
            path.append(os.path.join(dirpath, x))
print(path) #do your operation here