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

You want:

print len([name for name in os.listdir('./client_side/') if os.path.isfile(name)])

with a "." before "/client_side/".

The dot means the current path where you are working (i.e. from where you are calling your code), so "./client_side/" represents the path you want, which is specified relatively to your current directory.

If you write only "/client_side/", in unix, the program would look for a folder in the root of the system, instead of the folder that you want.