EDIT: If you have also encountered this issue, there are two possible solutions below.
I am making a very simple Python script to merge several markdown files together, while preserving all line breaks. The files I want to merge are called markdown/simple1.md, markdown/simple2.md, and markdown/simple3.md (they are placed inside a folder called markdown/.
This is the text content of simple1.md:
Page 1
This is some useless content
This is the text content of simple2.md:
Page 2
This is some useless content
This is the text content of simple3.md:
Page 3
This is some useless content
And here is what I have so far:
# Define files I want to merge
filenames = ['markdown/simple1.md', 'markdown/simple2.md', 'markdown/simple3.md']
# Merge markdown files into one big file
merged_filecontent = ""
file = ""
for file in filenames:
file = open(file).read()
file += "\n"
# print(file)
merged_filecontent = file
print(merged_filecontent)
This works perfectly. However, as soon as I try to call a variable outside of my for loop, like this:
# Define files I want to merge
filenames = ['markdown/simple1.md', 'markdown/simple2.md', 'markdown/simple3.md']
# Merge markdown files into one big file
merged_filecontent = ""
file = ""
for file in filenames:
file = open(file).read()
file += "\n"
# print(file)
merged_filecontent = file
# Call variable outside of for loop
print(merged_filecontent)
The variable only returns the 3rd markdown file, and doesn't show the merged file.
I would appreciate any help on this issue.
You need to actually merge the file content with merged_filecontent += file
# Define files I want to merge
filenames = ['markdown/simple1.md', 'markdown/simple2.md', 'markdown/simple3.md']
# Merge markdown files into one big file
merged_filecontent = ""
file = ""
for file in filenames:
file = open(file).read()
file += "\n"
# print(file)
merged_filecontent += file
# Call variable outside of for loop
print(merged_filecontent)