133 – Find files in a directory

You can use pathlib.Path together with the methods iterdir and is_file to find and list all files inside a directory:

from pathlib import Path

directory = Path("path/to/dir")
files = [p for p in directory.iterdir() if p.is_file()]

The method iterdir finds all directory contents but won’t recurse into subdirectories and then is_file filters out anything that’s not a file. You could replace it with is_dir to get all directories instead.

This is more robust that using something like glob(*.*) because files don’t always have dots in their names.