How to use the dir/s command in Python?

Question

Background

I use the command dir/s in batch files all the time. But, I am unable to call this using python. NOTE: I am

Answer 1

You need a space between dir and /s. So break it into an array of 2 elements. Also as carlosdoc pointed out, you would need to add shell=True, since the dir command is a shell builtin.

import subprocess
subprocess.call(["dir", "/s"], shell=True)

But if you're trying to get a directory listing, make it OS independent by using the functions available in the os module such as os.listdir(), os.chdir()