How do I get number of files in a particular directory.

[Peter Otten]

blur959 wrote:

> Hi, I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. My file directory has
> many different files extensions, and I want it to return me a number
> based on the number of files with similar files extensions. But when I
> tried running it, I get many weird numbers. Below is my code i had so
> far and the result.

Use glob.glob() instead of os.listdir() if you are only interested in files 
with a specific extension:

>>> import glob
>>> len(glob.glob("*.py"))
42

Peter