Browse files and subfolders in Python

Question

I d like to browse through the current folder and all its subfolders and get all the files with  htm  html extensions  I have found out that it is possible to find out whether an object is a dir or file like this   import os  dirList   os listdir         current directory for dir in dirList    if os path isdir dir     True        I don t know how to get into this dir and do the same thing here   else        I got file and i can regexp if it is  htm html   and in the end  I would like to have all the files and their paths in an array  Is something like that possible

User · Answer

Slightly altered version of Sven Marnach's solution..


import os

folder_location = 'C:\SomeFolderName'
file_list = create_file_list(folder_location)

def create_file_list(path):
    return_list = []

for filenames in os.walk(path):
    for file_list in filenames:
        for file_name in file_list:
            if file_name.endswith((".txt")):
                return_list.append(file_name)

return return_list

User · Answer

Use newDirName   os path abspath dir  to create a full directory path name for the subdirectory and then list its contents as you have done with the parent  i e  newDirList   os listDir newDirName    You can create a separate method of your code snippet and call it recursively through the subdirectory structure  The first parameter is the directory pathname  This will change for each subdirectory   This answer is based on the 3 1 1 version documentation of the Python Library  There is a good model example of this in action on page 228 of the Python 3 1 1 Library Reference  Chapter 10 - File and Directory Access    Good Luck

User · Answer

from tkinter import   import os  root   Tk   file   filedialog askdirectory   changed dir   os listdir file  print changed dir  root mainloop

User · Answer

You can use os walk   to recursively iterate through a directory and all its subdirectories   for root  dirs  files in os walk path       for name in files          if name endswith    html     htm                   whatever   To build a list of these names  you can use a list comprehension   htmlfiles    os path join root  name               for root  dirs  files in os walk path               for name in files              if name endswith    html     htm

User · Answer

I had a similar thing to work on  and this is how I did it   import os  rootdir   os getcwd    for subdir  dirs  files in os walk rootdir       for file in files           print os path join subdir  file          filepath   subdir   os sep   file          if filepath endswith   html                print  filepath    Hope this helps

User · Answer

In python 3 you can use os scandir     for i in os scandir path       if i is file            print  File      i path      elif i is dir            print  Folder      i path

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