I want to get a list of all files in a target directory including subdirectories, with the path starting at the target directory.

edit1: I want to insert it at the correct position alphabetically.

$ tree test
test
├── file
└── sub
    ├── fileinsub
    ├── otherfileinsub
    └── sub2
        └── fileinsub2

>>> print(os.listdir("test"))
['sub', 'file']
>>>print(recusivelistdir("test"))
['sub', 'sub/fileinsub', 'sub/otherfileinsub', 'sub/sub2', 'sub/sub2/fileinsub2' 'file']

edit7: My working solution!!

def recursivelistdir(target):
    target_files = []
    for dir, subdir, files in os.walk(target):
        for i in range(len(files)):
            target_files.append((os.path.join(dir, files[i])).removeprefix(f"{target}/"))
            target_files.append((dir).removeprefix(f"{target}/"))
            # Remove the duplicate entry
            target_files = list(dict.fromkeys(target_files))
            if target_files.__contains__(target):
                target_files.remove(target)
    return target_files

print(recursivelistdir("test")) # ['file', 'sub/fileinsub', 'sub', 'sub/otherfileinsub', 'sub/sub2/fileinsub2', 'sub/sub2']

CodePudding user response：

import os
def recusivelistdir(path):
    result = []
    for root,dirs,files in os.walk(path):
         result.extend([root   os.path.sep   _dir for _dir in dirs])
         result.extend([root   os.path.sep   file for file in files])
    print(result)
recusivelistdir('path folder')

CodePudding user response：

You can always made a recursive solution, but in this case the os module have a good method, os.walk(path), where path is the root directory

li=[]
for d,ds,fs in os.walk(path):
    li =[f"{d}/{f}" for f in fs] 
return li

Inside the for, d will be the current directory, ds a list of all subdirectories inside d and fs the list of all files inside d, in every iteration of the for, the method "walks" inside the subdirectories inside the current directory.

CodePudding user response：

Use glob you will love it!

from glob import glob
target = "test"   <REG_EX>
target_files = glob(target, recursive=True)

Replace REG_EX with whatever the sub_dir string you need.

To elaborate more on the solution use sorted on glob output to sort the directories any type necessary

sorted(glob.glob('./test/**/*',recursive=True)) #Sorts alphabetically. 

If you need more sorting;

sorted(glob.glob(('./test/**/*',recursive=True),key=os.path.getmtime) # Sorts with mt time
sorted(glob.glob(('./test/**/*',recursive=True),key=os.path.getsize) # Sorts with size