import os, sys from decimal import * def test(num_files, *args): path=args num_files = int(Decimal(num_files)) final_file= open("C:/final_file.txt","w") i = 0 while (i <= num_files): f= open(path[i],"r") if (path[i]<> ""): for line_data in f: final_file.writelines(line_data) i = +1 break f.close() if f.closed==True: print "CLOSED" else: print "NOT OK" final_file.close()