Learn Web Development with Python

Directory content

With Python, you can also inspect the content of a directory. I'll show you two ways of doing this:

# files/listing.pyimport oswith os.scandir('.') as it:    for entry in it:        print(            entry.name, entry.path,            'File' if entry.is_file() else 'Folder'        )

This snippet uses os.scandir, called on the current directory. We iterate on the results, each of which is an instance of os.DirEntry, a nice class that exposes useful properties and methods. In the code, we access a subset of those: name, path, and is_file(). Running the code yields the following (I omitted a few results for brevity):

$ python listing.pyfixed_amount.py ./fixed_amount.py Fileexistence.py ./existence.py File...ops_example ./ops_example Folder...

A more powerful way ...