how do I search/detect all of the directories/sub-directories within a specified path?

Question

I am trying to list out all of the sub-directories in a given path (see my code)

however, I am very new to python and am wondering what would be the best approach

the below code will produce everything in the folder but I am looking for the directories and sub-directories only

import os

def main():

    videosDir = os.listdir("D:\TempServer\Videos\Movies")

    for dir in videosDir:
        dirName = "" + dir
        print(dirName)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

any help would be appriecated

Thanks!

littlejiver

Answer 1

Instead of os.listdir use os.walk . That will distinguish the folders from the files. It loops only on the folders, so you don't even need to filter out the non-folders. If you want the file names, there is a list of the files in each folder (and another list for the subfolders).

for folderName, subfolders, filenames in os.walk("D:\TempServer\Videos\Movies"):
    print(folderName)