How do I read the number of files in a folder using Python?

Question

How do I read the number of files in a specific folder using Python? Example code would be awesome!

Answer 1

You can use the glob module:

>>> import glob
>>> print len(glob.glob('/tmp/*'))
10

Or, as Mark Byers suggests in his answer, if you only want files:

>>> print [f for f in glob.glob('/tmp/*') if os.path.isfile(f)]
['/tmp/foo']
>>> print sum(os.path.isfile(f) for f in glob.glob('/tmp/*'))
1