getting all files in a folder python code example

Example 1: python read a directory to get all files in sub folders

import os

path ="C:/workspace/python"
#we shall store all the file names in this list
filelist = []

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
	for file in files:
        #append the file name to the list
		filelist.append(os.path.join(root,file))

#print all the file names
for name in filelist:
    print(name)

Example 2: read all files in folder python

import glob
print(glob.glob("/home/adam/*.txt"))