Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

How it works...

The os.walk function navigates the directory and all its subfolders. For each directory that it finds, it returns three values: the directory itself, the subdirectories it contains, and the files it contains. Then, it will move into the subdirectories of the directory it just provided and return the same three values for the subdirectory.

This means that in our recipe, basepath is always the current directory that is being inspected, directories are its subdirectories, and files are the files that it contains.

By iterating over the list of files contained within the current directory and joining their names with the directory path itself, we can get the path of all files contained in the directory. As os.walk will then move ...