listDirectory

• 1. list of the contents of the directory

  2. os.listdir("c:\\music\\_singles\\") #listdir returns both files and folders, with no indication of which is which.

  3. separate the files from the folder

  4. [f for f in os.listdir(dirname)

  5. if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(dirname, f))]

  6. get a list of the subdirectories within a directory

  7. [f for f in os.listdir(dirname)

  8. if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(dirname, f))]

  9. list the full path of all files and directories matching the wildcard

  10. import glob

  11. glob.glob('c:\\music\\_singles\\s*.mp3') # list the files in a specific directory that start with "s" and end with ".mp3"

Reference: http://www.diveintopython.net/file_handling/os_module.html