How to use listdir to list all files in a directory in windows.
I need to list all files in the location C:\Users\jibin\Desktop\CDR\CDR_Extract\, it gives an error
"SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape"
import os
arr = os.listdir('C:\Users\jibin\Desktop\CDR\CDR_Extract')
print(arr)
You need to escape the backslashes in the string.
Replace:
'C:\Users\jibin\Desktop\CDR\CDR_Extract'
With (escape the backslashes),
'C:\\Users\\jibin\\Desktop\\CDR\\CDR_Extract'
Or, use forward slashes instead of backlashes,
'C:/Users/jibin/Desktop/CDR/CDR_Extract'
Or, you can put r in front of string to convert normal string to raw string,
r'C:\Users\jibin\Desktop\CDR\CDR_Extract'
you can use glob module, see the example bellow (its generic approach for listing and doing some thing with files you want to locate)
import glob
import os
def rmf_handler(arg,cdir,names):
# for example we want to remove *.pyc files from current directory
for path in glob.glob(cdir+'\*.pyc'):
print 'remove {ppath}'.format(ppath=path)
os.remove(path)
def rmm(root):
os.path.walk(root,rmf_handler,None)
# call it:
rmm(root_dir)
