Download files based on input list Python

Question

I'm trying to download files based on given list. My script does it well for me. However, I have one issue. It downloads just the first one. It doesn't iterate over the list. I've modified the code a little and now it's considering all the elements in the list to be one element and returns an error saying 'No such file or directory data\item1\nitem2\nitem3\nitem4\nitem5.txt' Here's a part of my code that parses the input list.

def get_data(name):
    file_name = os.path.join("data", name + ".txt")
    if not os.path.exists(file_name):
        sys.exit(-1)

    inF = open(file_name, "r") 
    lines = inF.readlines()
    data = ''.join(lines)

    return data 

EDIT:

def download_final_data_for_data(data):
    url = "http://www.example.com/"+ data
    url_file = urlopen(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(url_file)
    soup1 = str(soup)
    pattern=re.compile(r'''>final_data(.*?)</a>''')  
    data = pattern.findall(soup1)
    final_data_number = ''.join(data)
    return final_data_number

def get_data(name):
    data_list = []
    file_name = os.path.join("data", name + ".txt")
    if not os.path.exists(file_name):
        sys.exit(-1)

    inF = open(file_name, "r") 
    lines = inF.readlines()
    for line in lines:
        data = line.strip()
        if len(data) > 1:
            data_list.append(data)
        else:
            data_list.append(sys.argv[1])
    return data_list

Answer 1

I see where the problem is. The problematic part is:

file_name = os.path.join("data", name + ".txt")

in order to get the correct file-name you would have to iterate over the names somehow. In order to get a list of your names as you read them (and as they are present in the code right now) do a

namelist = name.split("/n") #this gives you a list that you can work on.
                            #alternatively read the file line-by-line (which you don't at the moment)

what your code does is joining the strings containing "data" , all the names you read with the newline characters and a ".txt" suffix. Anyway, then just do a

for name in namelist:
    #do stuff with name
    file_name = os.path.join("data",name+".txt")
    ....