Count Files in a Directory

[hokiegal99]

I'm trying to count the number of files within a directory, but I
don't really understand how to go about it. This code:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
   for fname in files:
      x = str.count(fname)
      print x

Produces this error:

TypeError: count() takes at least 1 argument (0 given)

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
   for fname in files:
      x = list.count(files)
      print x

TypeError: count() takes exactly one argument (0 given)

Also wondered why the inconsistency in error messages (numeric 1 vs.
one)??? Using 2.3.0

Thanks!!!