Assign a variable to every directory inside one folder. (python)

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I have one folder that contains many other folders. I want to able to extract those directory names and assign them to variables. I dont know the names of those folders and I dont know the quantity either. I need just the names of those folders and not the entire path.

Example:

inside \users\temp\ I have 2 directories. test1, test2

 folder[0] = test1

 folder[1] = test2

and so on....depending on how many directories I have.

Thank you

have a look at this looks at this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/120656/directory-listing-in-python — Saurabh Kumar, May 09 '13 at 05:59

Ashwini Chaudhary · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-09T06:03:50.537

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You can use os.listdir and a list comprehension:

import os
path = r"\users\temp"   #use raw string as otherwise \t will be converted to tab space
folder = [x for x in os.listdir(path) if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(path,x))]

edited May 09 '13 at 06:03

answered May 09 '13 at 05:56

Ashwini Chaudhary

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thank you soooo much...I would give you a check but dont have enough points!! – user2353003 May 09 '13 at 06:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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import os

print [name for name in os.listdir(".") if os.path.isdir(name)]

Or you can take reference from here List Directories and get the name of the Directory

os.path — Common pathname manipulations

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered May 09 '13 at 06:06

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Assign a variable to every directory inside one folder. (python)

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