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:

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Answer 1

Two things:

1. os.listdir() does not do a glob pattern matching, use the glob module for that
2. probably you do not have a directory called '/client_side/*.*', but maybe one without the . in the name

The syntax you used works fine, if the directory you look for exists, but there is no directory called '/client_side/.'.

In addition, be careful if using Python 2.x and os.listdir, as the results on windows are different when you use u'/client_side/' and just '/client_side'.