List files ONLY in the current directory

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In Python  I only want to list all the files in the current directory ONLY  I do not want files listed from any sub directory or parent   There do seem to be similar solutions out there  but they don t seem to work for me  Here s my code snippet   import os for subdir  dirs  files in os walk            for file in files        do some stuff       print file   Let s suppose I have 2 files  holygrail py and Tim inside my current directory  I have a folder as well and it contains two files - let s call them Arthur and Lancelot - inside it  When I run the script  this is what I get   holygrail py Tim Arthur Lancelot   I am happy with holygrail py and Tim  But the two files  Arthur and Lancelot  I do not want listed

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You can use os listdir for this purpose   If you only want files and not directories  you can filter the results using os path isfile   example   files   os listdir os curdir    files and directories   or  files   filter os path isfile  os listdir  os curdir        files only files     f for f in os listdir  os curdir   if os path isfile f     list comprehension version

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this can be done with os walk    python 3 5 2 tested   import os for root  dirs  files in os walk      topdown True       dirs clear    with topdown true  this will prevent walk from going into subs     for file in files         do some stuff       print file    remove the dirs clear   line and the files in sub folders are included again   update with references   os walk documented here and talks about the triple list being created and topdown effects    clear   documented here for emptying a list  so by clearing the relevant list from os walk you can effect its result to your needs

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You can use the pathlib module   from pathlib import Path x   Path       print list filter lambda y y is file    x iterdir

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Just use os listdir and os path isfile instead of os walk   Example   import os files    f for f in os listdir      if os path isfile f   for f in files        do something     But be careful while applying this to other directory  like   files    f for f in os listdir somedir  if os path isfile f      which would not work because f is not a full path but relative to the current dir    Therefore  for filtering on another directory  do os path isfile os path join somedir  f     Thanks Causality for the hint

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import os for subdir  dirs  files in os walk            for file in files        do some stuff       print file   You can improve this code with del dirs   which will be like following    import os for subdir  dirs  files in os walk            del dirs        for file in files        do some stuff       print file   Or even better if you could point os walk with current working directory    import os cwd   os getcwd   for subdir  dirs  files in os walk cwd  topdown True       del dirs       remove the sub directories      for file in files        do some stuff       print file

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instead of os walk  just use os listdir

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You can use os scandir    New function in stdlib starts from Python 3 5   import os  for entry in os scandir           if entry is file            print entry name    Faster than os listdir    os walk   implements os scandir

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import os  destdir     var tmp testdir   files     f for f in os listdir destdir  if os path isfile os path join destdir f

[python] List files ONLY in the current directory

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