listdir

I'm trying to get the list of files in a particular directory and count the number of files in the directory. I always get the following error: WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: '/client_side/*.*' My code is: print len([name for name in os.listdir('/client_side/') if os.path.isfile(name)]) I followed the code example given here . I am running the Python script on Pyscripter and the directory /client_side/ do exists. My python code is in the root folder and has a sub-folder called "client_side". Can someone help me out on this? This error occurs when you use os

I'm trying to do this: import os [x for x in os.listdir('.') if os.path.isfile(x)] [x for x in os.listdir('dirname') if os.path.isfile(x)] [x for x in os.listdir(os.path.abspath('dirname')) if os.path.isfile(os.path.abspath(x))] The first line works: [x for x in os.listdir('.') if os.path.isfile(x)] But the next two: [x for x in os.listdir('dirname') if os.path.isfile(x)] and [x for x in os.listdir(os.path.abspath('dirname')) if os.path.isfile(os.path.abspath(x))] just output [] Why? Because you need to join the dirname with x , os.listdir() just lists the contents directly, the contents do

I often use python to process directories of data. Recently, I have noticed that the default order of the lists has changed to something almost nonsensical. For example, if I am in a current directory containing the following subdirectories: run01, run02, ... run19, run20, and then I generate a list from the following command: dir = os.listdir(os.getcwd()) then I usually get a list in this order: dir = ['run01', 'run18', 'run14', 'run13', 'run12', 'run11', 'run08', ... ] and so on. The order used to be alphanumeric. But this new order has remained with me for a while now. What is determining