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Python - Get a List of Files in a Directory

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This code snippet provides an example of listing files in a directory in the file system using Python. Module os is used.

There are multiple approaches to implement this:

os.listdir - returns both files and directory in a directory. We can check whether the returned items are files using os.path.isfile method.
os.walk - generates two lists for each directory it traverse - files and directories. The walk can be used to retrieve all the sub folders recursively.

Sample output:

['F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209020059.log', 'F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209020429.log', 'F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209020710.log', 'F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209020921.log', 'F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209021147.log', 'F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209021357.log', 'F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209021637.log', 'F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209022007.log', 'F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209030218.log', 'F:\\Projects\\kontext-logs\\RawLogs-0\\c716eb-202209030818.log']

Reference: os — Miscellaneous operating system interfaces

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import os
from os.path import *

path = r"F:\Projects\kontext-logs\RawLogs-0"
files = [join(path,item) for item in os.listdir(path) if isfile(join(path,item))]
print(files)

from os import walk
filenames = [join(path, item) for item in next(walk(path), (None, None, []))[2]]
print(filenames)

Python - Get a List of Files in a Directory

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