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cd biologydirect-1-1-19/


    

    




/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19

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!ls


    

    




biologydirect-1-1-19-caps.txt  pone.0000224.g001.tif  pone.0000248.g005.tif
biologydirect-1-1-19-jpg.txt   pone.0000235.g002.tif  pone.0000266.g002.tif
pone.0000189.g005.tif	       pone.0000248.g001.tif  pone.0000266.g003.tif
pone.0000189.g006.tif	       pone.0000248.g002.tif
pone.0000204.g006.tif	       pone.0000248.g003.tif

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import os,sys,glob


    

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path = "/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/*.tif"


    

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print path


    

    




/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/*.tif

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import glob, exiftool


    

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for fname in glob.glob(path):
    
    print(fname)


    

    




/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000266.g003.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000248.g003.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000204.g006.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000248.g002.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000189.g006.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000224.g001.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000235.g002.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000266.g002.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000248.g001.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000248.g005.tif
/home/ross/workspace/mygithub/Trying-beautiful-soup/biologydirect-1-1-19/pone.0000189.g005.tif

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import exiftool

files = ["pone.0000248.g003.tif", "pone.0000248.g002.tif", "pone.0000189.g005.tif"]
with exiftool.ExifTool() as et:
    metadata = et.get_metadata_batch(files)
for d in metadata:
    print("{:21.21} {:50.50}".format(d["SourceFile"],
                                     d["XMP:Description"]))


    

    




pone.0000248.g003.tif <p>Haplogroup Q phylogeny. Abbreviations follow <x
pone.0000248.g002.tif <p>Upper Pleistocene macrohaplogroup M phylogeny f
pone.0000189.g005.tif <p>Phylogenetic analysis of PDZ and LIM domains. (

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files = ["pone.0000248.g003.tif", "pone.0000248.g002.tif", "pone.0000189.g005.tif"]
with exiftool.ExifTool() as et:
    metadata = et.get_metadata_batch(files)
for d in metadata:
    print("{:21.21} {:50.50}".format(d["SourceFile"],
                                     d["XMP:Description"]))