There are a couple of ways: pathlib.Path().rglob() Use pathlib.Path().rglob() from the pathlib module, which was introduced in Python 3.5. from pathlib import Path for path in Path(‘src’).rglob(‘*.c’): print(path.name) glob.glob() If you don’t want to use pathlib, use glob.glob(): from glob import glob for filename in glob(‘src/**/*.c’, recursive=True): print(filename) For cases where matching files beginning with … Read more
In Python 3.5 and newer use the new recursive **/ functionality: configfiles = glob.glob(‘C:/Users/sam/Desktop/file1/**/*.txt’, recursive=True) When recursive is set, ** followed by a path separator matches 0 or more subdirectories. In earlier Python versions, glob.glob() cannot list files in subdirectories recursively. In that case I’d use os.walk() combined with fnmatch.filter() instead: import os import fnmatch … Read more
os.listdir() will be slightly more efficient than using glob.glob. To test if a filename is an ordinary file (and not a directory or other entity), use os.path.isfile(): import os, os.path # simple version for working with CWD print len([name for name in os.listdir(‘.’) if os.path.isfile(name)]) # path joining version for other paths DIR = ‘/tmp’ … Read more
pathlib.Path.rglob Use pathlib.Path.rglob from the the pathlib module, which was introduced in Python 3.5. from pathlib import Path for path in Path(‘src’).rglob(‘*.c’): print(path.name) If you don’t want to use pathlib, use can use glob.glob(‘**/*.c’), but don’t forget to pass in the recursive keyword parameter and it will use inordinate amount of time on large directories. … Read more