How can I list the contents of a directory in Python?

Question

import os
os.listdir("path") # returns list

One way:

import os
os.listdir("/home/username/www/")

Another way:

glob.glob("/home/username/www/*")

Examples found here.

The glob.glob method above will not list hidden files.

Since I originally answered this question years ago, pathlib has been added to Python. My preferred way to list a directory now usually involves the iterdir method on Path objects:

from pathlib import Path
print(*Path("/home/username/www/").iterdir(), sep="\n")

os.walk can be used if you need recursion:

import os
start_path = '.' # current directory
for path,dirs,files in os.walk(start_path):
    for filename in files:
        print os.path.join(path,filename)

glob.glob or os.listdir will do it.