how to open the file with path name?

Question

I am trying to open the file using a path instead of file name I used glob.glob option to go and search in the path for an input file. Now I got struck with opening that. Any help would be appreciated.

import glob
a = (glob.glob("*/file.txt"))
with open (a, 'r') as f:

Trying to read the file.txt and I am getting error in line3. Any help would be appreciated.

Error: TypeError: expacted str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not list

Answer 1

glob.glob() returns a list. You need to loop through it, opening each file.

import glob

for filename in glob.glob("*/file.txt"):
    with open(filename, "r") as f:
        ...

Answer 2

glob.glob returns a list of file paths. You will need to access one of the paths in the list, or iterate over them.

import glob

a = glob.glob("*/file.txt")
with open(a[0], 'r') as f:
    text= f.read()