So, the scheme is that I have a folder, inside which there are other folders with .tif images. For instance I have something like that:

folder_1/folder_2/folder_3/image_1.tif
folder_1/folder_2/image_2.tif
folder_1/image_3.tif
folder_1/folder_2/folder_3/image_4.tif

I need to read all the .tif images from all folders. I tried this suggestion: Loading all images using imread from a given folder but it does not work for variable path folders, as my scheme. So, after searching I tried this suggestion: Loading multiple images from multiple folders in python but I get this error:

    raise UnidentifiedImageError(
PIL.UnidentifiedImageError: cannot identify image file(....)

Any idea how to read all .tif images from all folders, which vary in "folder distance" from the initial folder?

CodePudding user response：

The glob module helps with this.

from glob import glob
import os.path
parent_dir = "C:\\folder_1"  # Or wherever your parent folder is
all_tif_file_paths = glob(os.path.join(parent_dir, "**", "*.tif"), recursive=True)

The "**" there means 'any number (including zero) of intervening directories', and when you use it, you need to specify recursive=True.

Then you can loop over all_tif_file_paths and read each file in turn.