Python On Windows: IOError: [Errno 2] No Such File Or Directory

First of all, I'm very new to Python and programming in general. Currently I'm trying to create a script that will remove all files with random names, extensions and content in the

Solution 1:

os.listdir returns filenames, not complete path.

PATH = "C:/path/to/files/"
for filename in os.listdir(PATH):
    content = open(os.path.join(PATH, filename)).read()

Here, os.path.join is used for merge the path and the filename.

Solution 2:

if you want to remove the file, it should pass the whole path of file.

import os

black_list = [line for line in open("C:/path/to/blacklist.txt")]
path = "C:/path/to/files/"
for filename in os.listdir(path):
    content = open(path+ filename).read()
    if any(line in content for line in black_list):
        os.remove(path + filename)