List only files in a directory?

Question

Is there a way to list the files (not directories) in a directory with Python? I know I could use os.listdir and a loop of os.path.isfile()s, but if th

Answer 1

For the special case of working with files in the current directory, you could do it as a simple one-liner list comprehension:

[f for f in os.listdir(os.curdir) if os.path.isfile(f)]

Otherwise in the more general case, directory paths & filenames have to be joined:

dirpath = '~/path_to_dir_of_interest'
files = [f for f in os.listdir(dirpath) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(dirpath, f))]

Answer 2

You could try pathlib, which has a lot of other useful stuff too.

Pathlib is an object-oriented library for interacting with filesystem paths. To get the files in the current directory, one can do:

from pathlib import *
files = (x for x in Path(".") if x.is_file())
for file in files:
    print(str(file), "is a file!")

This is, in my opinion, more Pythonic than using os.path.

See also: PEP 428.