Python in a Nutshell

Name

listdir

Synopsis

listdir(path)

Returns a list whose items are the names of all files and subdirectories found in directory path. The returned list is in arbitrary order, and does not include the special directory names '.' and '..‘.

The dircache module also supplies a function named listdir, which works like os.listdir, with two enhancements. First, dircache.listdir returns a sorted list. Further, dircache caches the list it returns, so repeated requests for lists of the same directory are faster if the directory’s contents have not changed in the meantime. dircache automatically detects changes, so the list that dircache.listdir returns is always up to date.