On Friday 20 May 2005 07:12 pm, rbt wrote: > I assume that there's a better way than this to count the files in a > directory recursively. Is there??? > > def count_em(valid_path): > x = 0 > for root, dirs, files in os.walk(valid_path): > for f in files: > x = x+1 > print "There are", x, "files in this directory." > return x > > rbt
def count_em(valid_path): root, dirs, files = os.walk(valid_path) return len(files) -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list