Listing folders in current working directory

Question

How can I get the list of folders in current working directory in Python?
I need only the folders, not files or sub-folders.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141291/how-to-list-only-top-level-directories-in-python — ndpu, Feb 11 '13 at 09:33

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 11 '13 at 09:38

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Simple list comprehension:

[fn for fn in os.listdir(u'.') if os.path.isdir(fn)]

answered Feb 11 '13 at 09:38

nneonneo

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

Thanks to @ATOzTOA
You can use os.listdir and os.path.isfile like here:

import os

path = 'whatever your path is'

for item in os.listdir(path):
    if not os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, item)):
        print "Folder: ",item
    else:
        print "File: ",item

Now you know what are folders and what are files.
Since you don't want files, you can simply store the folders (path or name) in a list
For that, Do this:

import os

path = 'whatever your path is'
folders = [] # list that will contain folders (path+name)

for item in os.listdir(path):
    if not os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, item)):
        folders.append(os.path.join(path, item)) #  os.path.join(path, item) is your folder path

@AhmetSezginDuran Added some more code, see that too. Also, pls accept this answer it it helped... — pradyunsg, Feb 11 '13 at 10:09

Listing folders in current working directory

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