Answers for "how to get any file list from the folder in python"

python list all files in directory

import os
 arr = os.listdir()
 print(arr)
 
 >>> ['$RECYCLE.BIN', 'work.txt', '3ebooks.txt', 'documents']

get the list of file names from a folder in python

from os import listdir
from os.path import isfile, join

# Getting file path from user and store it on path variable
path = input("Please enter a directory name:\n")

# Try catch for printing error message if the user enter invalid path
try:
    # Getting list of file from the given path and store it in (onlyfiles) variable
  onlyfiles = [f for f in listdir(path) if isfile(join(path, f))]

    # Looping through the file and print each file
  for file in onlyfiles:
    print(file)

except Exception as e:
    # If there is some error, print error message
  print("Incorrect path.")