How to list only top level directories in Python?

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os.walk

Use os.walk with next item function:

next(os.walk('.'))[1]

For Python <=2.5 use:

os.walk('.').next()[1]

How this works

os.walk is a generator and calling next will get the first result in the form of a 3-tuple (dirpath, dirnames, filenames). Thus the [1] index returns only the dirnames from that tuple.

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