Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Contents of the current working directory

In this example, the os module is used to list the contents of the current working directory with the os.getcwd() method.

You can find the following code in the show_content_directory.py file in the os module subfolder:

import ospwd = os.getcwd()list_directory = os.listdir(pwd)for directory in list_directory:    print directory

These are the main steps for the previous code:

1. Import the os module.
2. Use the os module, call the os.getcwd() method to retrieve the current working directory path, and store that value on the pwd variable.
3. Obtain the the list of directories from the current directory path. Use the os.listdir() method to obtain the file names and directories in the current working directory. ...