Error while using listdir in Python

Question

I\'m trying to get the list of files in a particular directory and count the number of files in the directory. I always get the following error:

WindowsError         


        

Answer 1

I decided to change the code into:

def numOfFiles(path):
    return len(next(os.walk(path))[2])

and use the following the call the code:

print numOfFiles("client_side")

Many thanks to everyone who told me how to pass the windows directory correctly in Python and to nrao91 in here for providing the function code.

EDIT: Thank you eryksun for correcting my code!