How can I list the contents of a directory in Python

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Can   t be hard  but I   m having a mental block

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One way   import os os listdir   home username www      Another way   glob glob   home username www       Examples found here   The glob glob method above will not list hidden files   Since I originally answered this question years ago  pathlib has been added to Python  My preferred way to list a directory now usually involves the iterdir method on Path objects   from pathlib import Path print  Path   home username www    iterdir    sep   n

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glob glob or os listdir will do it

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Below code will list directories and the files within the dir  The other one is os walk  def print directory contents sPath           import os                                                for sChild in os listdir sPath                               sChildPath   os path join sPath sChild              if os path isdir sChildPath                   print directory contents sChildPath              else                  print sChildPath

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The os module handles all that stuff      os listdir path       Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory given by path     The list is in arbitrary order  It does not include the special entries     and         even if they are present in the directory       Availability  Unix  Windows

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import os os listdir  path     returns list

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os walk can be used if you need recursion   import os start path         current directory for path dirs files in os walk start path       for filename in files          print os path join path filename

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In Python 3 4   you can use the new pathlib package   from pathlib import Path for path in Path      iterdir        print path    Path iterdir   returns an iterator  which can be easily turned into a list   contents   list Path      iterdir

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Since Python 3 5  you can use os scandir   The difference is that it returns file entries not names  On some OSes like windows  it means that you don t have to os path isdir file to know if it s a file or not  and that saves CPU time because stat is already done when scanning dir in Windows   example to list a directory and print files bigger than max value bytes   for dentry in os scandir   path to dir        if dentry stat   st size  gt  max value         print     is biiiig  format dentry name      read an extensive performance-based answer of mine here

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