Python 2.7 Opening Multiple Files From Non-default Directory (for Opencv)

I'm using python 2.7 on 64 bit win7 and have opencv 2.4.x. When I write cv2.imread('pic') it opens pic in my default python path which is C:\Users\Myname. But how I will manage to

Solution 1:

Is this what you are looking for? I recommend looking for some tutorials that show basic os and os.path usage. They are very useful tools. Here is the first one I found.

import os
import cv2

mypath = os.path.join('c:\\', 'asdf', 'jkl')

images = list()
for item in os.listdir(mypath):
    if '.jpg' in item:  # this could be more correctly done with os.path.splitext
        image = cv2.imread(os.path.join(mypath, item))
        if image is not None:
            images.append(image)