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.pat         


        

Answer 1

def dir_contents(path):
    files,folders = [],[]
    for p in listdir(path):
        if isfile(p): files.append(p)
        else: folders.append(p)
    return files, folders