What is the Python way to walk a directory tree?

Question

I feel that assigning files, and folders and doing the += [item] part is a bit hackish. Any suggestions? I'm using Python 3.2

from os import * from os.path import *  def dir_contents(path):     contents = listdir(path)     files = []     folders = []     for i, item in enumerate(contents):         if isfile(contents[i]):             files += [item]         elif isdir(contents[i]):             folders += [item]     return files, folders 

Answer 1

Take a look at the os.walk function which returns the path along with the directories and files it contains. That should considerably shorten your solution.

Answer 2

os.walk and os.scandir are great options, however, I've been using pathlib more and more, and with pathlib you can use the .glob() method:

root_directory = Path(".") for path_object in root_directory.glob('**/*'):     if path_object.is_file():         print(f"hi, I'm a file: {path_object}")     elif path_object.is_dir():         print(f"hi, I'm a dir: {path_object}")