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

While googling for the same info, I found this question.

I am posting here the smallest, clearest code which I found at http://www.pythoncentral.io/how-to-traverse-a-directory-tree-in-python-guide-to-os-walk/ (rather than just posting the URL, in case of link rot).

The page has some useful info and also points to a few other relevant pages.

# Import the os module, for the os.walk function
import os

# Set the directory you want to start from
rootDir = '.'
for dirName, subdirList, fileList in os.walk(rootDir):
    print('Found directory: %s' % dirName)
    for fname in fileList:
        print('\t%s' % fname)