To get lists of files and subdirectories, you can use os.walk
. Below is an implementation I wrote to get all files (optionally, of certain type(s)) in arbitrarily nested subdirectories:
from os import walk, sep
from functools import reduce # in Python 3.x only
def get_filelist(root, extensions=None):
"""Return a list of files (path and name) within a supplied root directory.
To filter by extension(s), provide a list of strings, e.g.
get_filelist(root, ["zip", "csv"])
"""
return reduce(lambda x, y: x+y,
[[sep.join([item[0], name]) for name in item[2]
if (extensions is None or
name.split(".")[-1] in extensions)]
for item in walk(root)])