This is a preview of the video course, "Listing All Files in a Directory With Python." Getting a list of all the files and folders in a directory is a natural first step for many file-related operations in Python. When looking into it, though, you may be surprised to find various ways to go about it.
This is a portion of the complete course, which you can find here:
https://realpython.com/courses/efficient-iterations-iterators-iterables/
The rest of the course covers:
- Using .glob and .rglob()
- Listing files using recursive techniques
- Conditionally listing the files