The filehandles
package is a Python library that facilitates processing of
files by removing boilerplate code that you need to write to open files from
directories, zip archives, tar archives, URL addresses of files, etc. It also
automatically closes open file handle after it has been processed.
The filehandles
package runs under Python 2.7 and Python 3.4+. Use pip to install.
python3 -m pip install filehandles
python3 -m pip install filehandles --upgrade
>>> from filehandles import filehandles
>>>
>>> for fh in filehandles('path/to/files'):
... # utilize file handle
... text = fh.readline()
>>>