List Directories and get the name of the Directory

Question

I am trying to get the code to list all the directories in a folder  change directory into that folder and get the name of the current folder  The code I have so far is below and isn t working at the minute  I seem to be getting the parent folder name   import os  for directories in os listdir os getcwd          dir   os path join   home user workspace   directories      os chdir dir      current   os path dirname dir      new   str current  split  -   0      print new   I also have other files in the folder but I do not want to list them  I have tried the below code but I haven t got it working yet either   for directories in os path isdir os listdir os getcwd         Can anyone see where I am going wrong   Thanks  Got it working but it seems a bit round about   import os os chdir   home user workspace   all subdirs    d for d in os listdir      if os path isdir d   for dirs in all subdirs      dir   os path join   home user workspace   dirs      os chdir dir      current   os getcwd       new   str current  split      4      print new

User · Accepted Answer

This will print all the subdirectories of the current directory:

print [name for name in os.listdir(".") if os.path.isdir(name)]

I'm not sure what you're doing with split("-"), but perhaps this code will help you find a solution?

If you want the full pathnames of the directories, use abspath:

print [os.path.abspath(name) for name in os.listdir(".") if os.path.isdir(name)]

Note that these pieces of code will only get the immediate subdirectories. If you want sub-sub-directories and so on, you should use walk as others have suggested.

User · Answer

Listing the entries in the current directory  for directories in os listdir os getcwd      and then interpreting those entries as subdirectories of an entirely different directory  dir   os path join   home user workspace   directories   is one thing that looks fishy

User · Answer

You seem to be using Python as if it were the shell  Whenever I ve needed to do something like what you re doing  I ve used os walk    For example  as explained here   x 0  for x in os walk directory   should give you all of the subdirectories  recursively

User · Answer

import os for root  dirs  files in os walk top  topdown False       for name in dirs          print os path join root  name    Walk is a good built-in for what you are doing

[python] List Directories and get the name of the Directory

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