stopWords = open("stopwords.txt", "r") import glob textFiles = glob.glob('*.txt') Fileset = set() def textset(textFiles): for x in textFiles: Fileset.add(str(x)) print Fileset textset(textFiles) def textread(textFiles): for x in textFiles: openFile = open(x,"r") for line in openFile: print line, textread(textFiles)