In my scripts that analyze all Gaussian output files in a directory, I use glob to get all the files into a list. The relevant script is as follows:<\/p>\n
#get a folder to search through #gets filepaths for everything in the specified folder ending with .LOG or .out file_paths_log = glob.glob(search_str_log) file_paths = file_paths_log + file_paths_out<\/code><\/p>\n I have been editing and testing output files within the directory, and my script has mistakenly read their temporary Word files as .out files. I needed to make those temporary files visible (see this link<\/a> for instructions on how to do that). Then I deleted the temporary files, so they would not be read as extra files.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I wanted my script to skip files that had in error termination in Gaussian, so I needed to search the output files for the string “Error termination”. Since I was reading output files with combined = '\\t'.join(content_lines)<\/p>\n if \"Error termination\" in combined: else: Another option would have been to use In my scripts that analyze all Gaussian output files in a directory, I use glob to get all the files into a list. The relevant script is as follows: import glob #get a folder to search through folder_location = get_folder_location() … Continue reading import glob<\/p>\n
\nfolder_location = get_folder_location()<\/p>\n
\nsearch_str_log = folder_location + \"*.LOG\"
\nsearch_str_out = folder_location + \"*.out\"<\/p>\n
\nfile_paths_out = glob.glob(search_str_out)<\/p>\n.readlines()<\/code>, as a list of lines (strings), I decided to recombine the list of strings into one string as follows:<\/p>\n#reads the file as a list of its lines of text
\ncontent_lines = current_file.readlines()<\/p>\n
\n print file_name + \" skipped because of error termination
\n in Gaussian.\"<\/p>\n
\n #analyze file<\/code><\/p>\n.read()<\/code> in addition to .readlines()<\/code> for a different variable content<\/code>, but that would set the cursor to the end of the file, and I would need to write current_file.seek(0)<\/code> to reset the cursor to the beginning of the file. (See this post<\/a> for more information about this issue.) Using the .join()<\/code> command was a simpler way of getting the text file as a string, without having to set the cursor back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"