Non-recursive os.walk()

python os.walk non-recursive
Paulo Freitas picture Paulo Freitas · Nov 7, 2010 · Viewed 20.5k times · Source

I'm looking for a way to do a non-recursive os.walk() walk, just like os.listdir() works. But I need to return in the same way the os.walk() returns. Any idea?

Thank you in advance.

Answer

Alecz picture Alecz · Oct 31, 2016

Add a break after the filenames for loop:

for root, dirs, filenames in os.walk(workdir):
    for fileName in filenames:
        print (fileName)
    break   #prevent descending into subfolders

This works because (by default) os.walk first lists the files in the requested folder and then goes into subfolders.

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