HPR0675: Python Response to Bad Apples Podcast 5x18

In episode 5X18 of the Bad Apples podcast, Klaatu challenged me to create my own podcast explaining my Python version of his bash script. His bash script created a list of files that matched a file name pattern, then read the first line from each of those files and wrote that to an output file. My Python program does exactly the same thing, but in Python.
Here is the body of that program with the comments stripped out:

#!/usr/bin/python
import glob
outfile = open("toc.output", "w")
for filename in glob.glob("*.txt"):
    outfile.write(open(filename).readline())

The above text can be used to follow along with the audio of the podcast. Here is the English explanation version of the above program:

• Tell the system the rest of the text in the file should interpreted by Python
• Import the glob module, which is one of the library modules that comes with Python
• Create a new file object called "toc.output" that we can write to
• Iterate over the list of files that match the pattern "*.txt" created by the glob function, and assign each matching file in turn to the filename variable
• Open each filename, read the first line from the file and write it to our previously opened output file.

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