Sorting Directories from files in a os.listdir??

[Peter Otten]

Scott David Daniels wrote:

>> I'd like to read the filenames in a directory, but not the
>> subdirectories, os.listdir() gives me everything... how do I separate
>> the directory names from the filenames? Is there another way of doing
>> this?
>> 
>> Thanks!
> 
>      import os
>      base, files, dirs = iter(os.walk(dirname)).next()
>      # now files is files and dirs is directories (and base == dirname)

>>> import os
>>> os.listdir(".")
['fifo', 'dir', 'file']  # a fifo, a directory, and a file
>>> w = os.walk(".")
>>> w is iter(w) # calling iter() is a noop here
True
>>> w.next()
('.', ['dir'], ['fifo', 'file']) # base, dirs, files; everything that is not
                                 # a directory goes into the files list

Peter