Getting a list of all subdirectories in the current directory

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Is there a way to return a list of all the subdirectories in the current directory in Python   I know you can do this with files  but I need to get the list of directories instead

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Here are a couple of simple functions based on  Blair Conrad s example -   import os  def get subdirs dir        Get a list of immediate subdirectories      return next os walk dir   1   def get subfiles dir        Get a list of immediate subfiles      return next os walk dir   2

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By joining multiple solutions from here  this is what I ended up using   import os import glob  def list dirs path       return  os path basename x  for x in filter          os path isdir  glob glob os path join path

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Since I stumbled upon this problem using Python 3 4 and Windows UNC paths  here s a variant for this environment   from pathlib import WindowsPath  def SubDirPath  d       return  f for f in d iterdir   if f is dir     subdirs   SubDirPath WindowsPath r   file01 acme local home     print subdirs    Pathlib is new in Python 3 4 and makes working with paths under different OSes much easier  https   docs python org 3 4 library pathlib html

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I ve had a similar question recently  and I found out that the best answer for python 3 6  as user havlock added  is to use os scandir  Since it seems there is no solution using it  I ll add my own  First  a non-recursive solution that lists only the subdirectories directly under the root directory   def get dirlist rootdir        dirlist           with os scandir rootdir  as rit          for entry in rit              if not entry name startswith      and entry is dir                    dirlist append entry path       dirlist sort     Optional  in case you want sorted directory names     return dirlist   The recursive version would look like this   def get dirlist rootdir        dirlist           with os scandir rootdir  as rit          for entry in rit              if not entry name startswith      and entry is dir                    dirlist append entry path                  dirlist    get dirlist entry path       dirlist sort     Optional  in case you want sorted directory names     return dirlist   keep in mind that entry path wields the absolute path to the subdirectory  In case you only need the folder name  you can use entry name instead  Refer to os DirEntry for additional details about the entry object

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I prefer using filter  https   docs python org 2 library functions html filter   but this is just a matter of taste   d     filter lambda x  os path isdir os path join d  x    os listdir d

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we can get list of all the folders by using os walk    import os  path   os getcwd    pathObject   os walk path    this pathObject is a object and we can get an array by  arr    x for x in pathObject   arr is of type    current directory    array of folder in current directory    files in current directory     subdirectory    array of folder in subdirectory    files in subdirectory           We can get list of all the subdirectory by iterating through the arr and printing the middle array  for i in arr     for j in i 1         print j    This will print all the subdirectory   To get all the files   for i in arr     for j in i 2         print i 0          j

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This below class would be able to get list of files  folder and all sub folder inside a given directory import os import json  class GetDirectoryList        def   init   self  path           self main path   path         self absolute path              self relative path            def get files and folders self  resp  path           all   os listdir path          resp  quot files quot                for file folder in all              if file folder     quot   quot  and file folder     quot    quot                   if os path isdir path    quot   quot    file folder                       resp file folder                           self get files and folders resp resp file folder   path  path    quot   quot    file folder                  else                      resp  quot files quot   append file folder                      self absolute path append path replace self main path    quot   quot    quot  quot      quot   quot    file folder                      self relative path append path    quot   quot    file folder          return resp  self relative path  self absolute path       property     def get all files folder self           self resp    self main path              all   self get files and folders self resp self main path   self main path          return all  if   name         main         mylib   GetDirectoryList path  quot sample folder quot       file list   mylib get all files folder     print  json dumps file list    Whereas Sample Directory looks like sample folder      lib a          lib c              lib e                    init   py                 a txt               init   py             b txt             c txt         lib d                init   py           init   py         d txt     lib b            init   py         e txt       init   py  Result Obtained            quot files quot            quot   init   py quot              quot lib b quot            quot files quot              quot   init   py quot            quot e txt quot                      quot lib a quot            quot files quot              quot   init   py quot            quot d txt quot                  quot lib c quot              quot files quot                quot   init   py quot              quot c txt quot              quot b txt quot                      quot lib e quot                quot files quot                  quot   init   py quot                quot a txt quot                                        quot lib d quot              quot files quot                quot   init   py quot                                        quot sample folder lib b   init   py quot        quot sample folder lib b e txt quot        quot sample folder   init   py quot        quot sample folder lib a lib c lib e   init   py quot        quot sample folder lib a lib c lib e a txt quot        quot sample folder lib a lib c   init   py quot        quot sample folder lib a lib c c txt quot        quot sample folder lib a lib c b txt quot        quot sample folder lib a lib d   init   py quot        quot sample folder lib a   init   py quot        quot sample folder lib a d txt quot                quot lib b   init   py quot        quot lib b e txt quot        quot sample folder   init   py quot        quot lib a lib c lib e   init   py quot        quot lib a lib c lib e a txt quot        quot lib a lib c   init   py quot        quot lib a lib c c txt quot        quot lib a lib c b txt quot        quot lib a lib d   init   py quot        quot lib a   init   py quot        quot lib a d txt quot

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This will list all subdirectories right down the file tree   import pathlib   def list dir dir       path   pathlib Path dir      dir          try          for item in path iterdir                if item is dir                    dir append item                  dir   dir   list dir item          return dir     except FileNotFoundError          print  Invalid directory     pathlib is new in version 3 4

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Python 3 4 introduced the pathlib module into the standard library  which provides an object oriented approach to handle filesystem paths  from pathlib import Path  p   Path          All subdirectories in the current directory  not recursive   f for f in p iterdir   if f is dir     To recursively list all subdirectories  path globbing can be used with the    pattern    This will also include the current directory     list p glob          Note that a single   as the glob pattern would include both files and directories non-recursively  To get only directories  a trailing   can be appended but this only works when using the glob library directly  not when using glob via pathlib  import glob    These three lines return both files and directories list p glob       list p glob        glob glob         Whereas this returns only directories glob glob        So Path       glob       matches the same paths as glob glob        recursive True   Pathlib is also available on Python 2 7 via the pathlib2 module on PyPi

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This is how I do it       import os     for x in os listdir os getcwd             if os path isdir x               print x

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import os  d        os path join d  o  for o in os listdir d                       if os path isdir os path join d o

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Building upon Eli Bendersky s solution  use the following example   import os test directory    lt your directory gt  for child in os listdir test directory       test path   os path join test directory  child      if os path isdir test path           print test path           Do stuff to the directory  test path    where  lt your directory gt  is the path to the directory you want to traverse

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If you need a recursive solution that will find all the subdirectories in the subdirectories  use walk as proposed before   If you only need the current directory s child directories  combine os listdir with os path isdir

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This function  with a given parent directory iterates over all its directories recursively and prints all the filenames which it founds inside  Too useful   import os  def printDirectoryFiles directory      for filename in os listdir directory             full path os path join directory  filename          if not os path isdir full path                print  full path     n     def checkFolders directory        dir list   next os walk directory   1        print dir list       for dir in dir list                     print dir          checkFolders directory       dir        printDirectoryFiles directory          main dir  C  Users S0082448 Desktop carpeta1   checkFolders main dir    input  Press enter to exit

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Thanks for the tips  guys  I ran into an issue with softlinks  infinite recursion  being returned as dirs  Softlinks  We don t want no stinkin  soft links  So     This rendered just the dirs  not softlinks    gt  gt  gt  import os  gt  gt  gt  inf   os walk       gt  gt  gt   x 0  for x in inf           iamadir

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Lot of nice answers out there but if you came here looking for a simple way to get list of all files or folders at once  You can take advantage of the os offered find on linux and mac which and is much faster than os walk import os all files list   os popen  quot find path to my base folder -type f quot   read   splitlines   all sub directories list   os popen  quot find path to my base folder -type d quot   read   splitlines    OR import os  def get files path       all files list   os popen f quot find  path  -type f quot   read   splitlines       return all files list  def get sub folders path       all sub directories list   os popen f quot find  path  -type d quot   read   splitlines       return all sub directories list

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This should work  as it also creates a directory tree  import os import pathlib  def tree directory       print f    directory        print  quot There are  quot    str len os listdir os getcwd               quot  folders in this directory  quot       for path in sorted directory glob                depth   len path relative to directory  parts          spacer            depth         print f  spacer    path name     This should list all the directories in a folder using the pathlib library  path relative to directory  parts gets the elements relative to the current working dir

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Do you mean immediate subdirectories  or every directory right down the tree    Either way  you could use os walk to do this   os walk directory    will yield a tuple for each subdirectory  Ths first entry in the 3-tuple is a directory name  so   x 0  for x in os walk directory     should give you all of the subdirectories  recursively   Note that the second entry in the tuple is the list of child directories of the entry in the first position  so you could use this instead  but it s not likely to save you much   However  you could use it just to give you the immediate child directories   next os walk       1    Or see the other solutions already posted  using os listdir and os path isdir  including those at  How to get all of the immediate subdirectories in Python

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The easiest way  from pathlib import Path from glob import glob  current dir   Path cwd   all sub dir paths   glob str current dir             returns list of sub directory paths  all sub dir names    Path sub dir  name for sub dir in all sub dir paths

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Implemented this using python-os-walk   http   www pythonforbeginners com code-snippets-source-code python-os-walk    import os  print  root prints out directories only from what you specified   print  dirs prints out sub-directories from root   print  files prints out all files from root and directories   print       20   for root  dirs  files in os walk   var log        print root      print dirs      print files

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You can get the list of subdirectories  and files  in Python 2 7 using os listdir path   import os os listdir path     list of subdirectories and files

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Much nicer than the above  because you don t need several os path join   and you will get the full path directly  if you wish   you can do this in Python 3 5 and above   subfolders     f path for f in os scandir folder  if f is dir       This will give the complete path to the subdirectory  If you only want the name of the subdirectory use f name instead of f path  https   docs python org 3 library os html os scandir    Slightly OT  In case you need all subfolder recursively and or all files recursively  have a look at this function  that is faster than os walk  amp  glob and will return a list of all subfolders as well as all files inside those  sub- subfolders  https   stackoverflow com a 59803793 2441026  In case you want only all subfolders recursively   def fast scandir dirname       subfolders   f path for f in os scandir dirname  if f is dir        for dirname in list subfolders           subfolders extend fast scandir dirname       return subfolders   Returns a list of all subfolders with their full paths  This again is faster than os walk and a lot faster than glob     An analysis of all functions  tl dr  - If you want to get all immediate subdirectories for a folder use os scandir  - If you want to get all subdirectories  even nested ones  use os walk or - slightly faster - the fast scandir function above  - Never use os walk for only top-level subdirectories  as it can be hundreds    of times slower than os scandir    If you run the code below  make sure to run it once so that your OS will have accessed the folder  discard the results and run the test  otherwise results will be screwed   You might want to mix up the function calls  but I tested it  and it did not really matter  All examples will give the full path to the folder  The pathlib example as a  Windows Path object  The first element of os walk will be the base folder  So you will not get only subdirectories  You can use fu pop 0  to remove it  None of the results will use natural sorting  This means results will be sorted like this  1  10  2  To get natural sorting  1  2  10   please have a look at https   stackoverflow com a 48030307 2441026     Results     os scandir      took   1 ms  Found dirs  439 os walk         took 463 ms  Found dirs  441 - gt  it found the nested one   base folder  glob glob       took  20 ms  Found dirs  439 pathlib iterdir took  18 ms  Found dirs  439 os listdir      took  18 ms  Found dirs  439   Tested with W7x64  Python 3 8 1      - - coding  utf-8 - -   Python 3   import time import os from glob import glob from pathlib import Path   directory   r  lt insert folder gt   RUNS   1   def run os walk        a   time time ns       for i in range RUNS           fu    x 0  for x in os walk directory       print f os walk t t ttook   time time ns   - a    1000   1000   RUNS  0f  ms  Found dirs   len fu       def run glob        a   time time ns       for i in range RUNS           fu   glob directory              print f glob glob t ttook   time time ns   - a    1000   1000   RUNS  0f  ms  Found dirs   len fu       def run pathlib iterdir        a   time time ns       for i in range RUNS           dirname   Path directory          fu    f for f in dirname iterdir   if f is dir        print f pathlib iterdir ttook   time time ns   - a    1000   1000   RUNS  0f  ms  Found dirs   len fu       def run os listdir        a   time time ns       for i in range RUNS           dirname   Path directory          fu    os path join directory  o  for o in os listdir directory  if os path isdir os path join directory  o        print f os listdir t ttook   time time ns   - a    1000   1000   RUNS  0f  ms  Found dirs   len fu       def run os scandir        a   time time ns       for i in range RUNS           fu    f path for f in os scandir directory  if f is dir        print f os scandir t ttook   time time ns   - a    1000   1000   RUNS  0f  ms  tFound dirs   len fu       if   name         main         run os scandir       run os walk       run glob       run pathlib iterdir       run os listdir

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With full path and accounting for path being                    subfolder  etc   import os  pprint pprint pprint  os path join os path abspath path   x 0         for x in os walk os path abspath path

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You could just use glob glob  from glob import glob glob   path to directory        Don t forget the trailing   after the

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use a filter function os path isdir over os listdir   something like this filter os path isdir  os path join os path abspath  PATH   p  for p in os listdir  PATH

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Copy paste friendly in ipython   import os d     folders   list filter lambda x  os path isdir os path join d  x    os listdir d      Output from print folders      folderA    folderB

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Listing Out only directories print  quot  nWe are listing out only the directories in current directory - quot   directories in curdir   filter os path isdir  os listdir os curdir   print directories in curdir   Listing Out only files in current directory files   filter os path isfile  os listdir os curdir   print  quot  nThe following are the list of all files in the current directory - quot   print files

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Although this question is answered a long time ago  I want to recommend to use the pathlib module since this is a robust way to work on Windows and Unix OS   So to get all paths in a specific directory including subdirectories   from pathlib import Path paths   list Path  myhomefolder    folder   glob       txt       all sorts of operations file   paths 0  file name file stem file parent file suffix   etc

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Function to return a List of all subdirectories within a given file path  Will search through the entire file tree    import os  def get sub directory paths start directory  sub directories               This method iterates through all subdirectory paths of a given      directory to collect all directory paths        param start directory  The starting directory path       param sub directories  A List that all subdirectory paths will be          stored to       return  A List of all sub-directory paths               for item in os listdir start directory           full path   os path join start directory  item           if os path isdir full path               sub directories append full path                 Recursive call to search through all subdirectories              get sub directory paths full path  sub directories   return sub directories

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This answer didn t seem to exist already   directories     x for x in os listdir      if os path isdir x

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