Remove directories from os.listdir output

[Steve Purcell]

Fernando Rodríguez wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 	I need to filter out all the diretories of the list returned by
> os.listdir(). How can I tell if an entry of that list is a dir or a regular
> file? O:-)

Use os.path.isdir():

>>> import os
>>> def listdir_files_only(directory):
...     contents = os.listdir(directory)
...     return filter(lambda f,d=directory: not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(d,f)), contents)
... 
>>> listdir_files_only('/tmp')
['python-sHAOTT', 'python-sHASlX', 'python-sHATtS']


-Steve

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