Iterate through folders, then subfolders and print filenames with path to text file

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Charles’ answer is good, but can be improved upon to increase speed and efficiency. Each item produced by os.walk() (See docs) is a tuple of three items. Those items are:

  1. The working directory
  2. A list of strings naming any sub-directories present in the working directory
  3. A list of files present in the working directory

Knowing this, much of Charles’ code can be condensed with the modification of a forloop:

import os

def list_files(dir):
    r = []
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dir):
        for name in files:
            r.append(os.path.join(root, name))
    return r

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