count files in a directory

[James Stroud]

On Friday 20 May 2005 07:12 pm, rbt wrote:
> I assume that there's a better way than this to count the files in a
> directory recursively. Is there???
>
> def count_em(valid_path):
>      x = 0
>      for root, dirs, files in os.walk(valid_path):
>          for f in files:
>              x = x+1
>      print "There are", x, "files in this directory."
>      return x
>
> rbt

def count_em(valid_path):
  root, dirs, files = os.walk(valid_path)
  return len(files)



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