Python – Find the list of all Files in the Directory

Today in this article, we shall see how to get python – Find the list of all files in the directory.

We shall see few very simple approaches like using,

• listdir
• glob
• walk

Today in this article, we will cover below aspects,

Below is how sample folder looks like,

listdir – Get a List of all Files and folder from the given directory or path

list= os.listdir('C:\Test\gcp')
print(list)

Result :

[‘cloud’, ‘DemoAPI’, ‘Test.txt’]

glob – Get a list of all types of files in the current directory

list = glob.glob(".")

glob – Get a list of all types of files in the given directory

list = glob.glob('C:\Test\gcp')

glob – Get a List of all files(of specific types) in the current directory

Below logic get a list of all files with extension type as .txt.

list = glob.glob(".txt") 

walk – Get a List of all files from a particular directory

Using walk also a simple interface to achieve the same,

for files in os.walk('C:\Test\gcp'):
 for file in files:
  if file.endswith('.txt'):
   print(file)

Similarly get root or directory list using below,

for root, dirs, files in os.walk('C:\Test\gcp'):
 for dir in dirs:
  print(dir)

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Happy Coding !!

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