How do I list all files of a directory?

Question

How can I list all files of a directory in Python and add them to a `list`?

Answer 1

If you import os, you can use os.listdir(path) to give a list of the names of the files in the directory. For example, if your path is 'Desktop\files', this might return ['image1.png', 'image2.png'].

If you want to get a list of the full paths for all the files in your directory, you can write [os.path.join(path, file_name) for file_name in os.listdir(path)]. This would return ['Desktop\files\image1.png', 'Desktop\files\image2.png'].

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