Python folder names in the directory

Question

how can i get the folder names existing in a directory using Python ?

I want to save all the subfolders into a list to work with the names after that but i dont know

Answer 1

You can use os.walk()

# !/usr/bin/python

import os

directory_list = list()
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("/path/to/your/dir", topdown=False):
    for name in dirs:
        directory_list.append(os.path.join(root, name))

print directory_list

EDIT

If you only want the first level and not actually "walk" through the subdirectories, it is even less code:

import os

root, dirs, files = os.walk("/path/to/your/dir").next()
print dirs

This is not really what os.walk is made for. If you really only want one level of subdirectories, you can also use os.listdir() like Yannik Ammann suggested:

root='/path/to/my/dir'
dirlist = [ item for item in os.listdir(root) if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(root, item)) ]
print dirlist