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

[blur959]

On Aug 13, 6:09 pm, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> 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


Hi, I want to make it such that the user inputs a file extension and
it prints the number of similar file extensions out.
I tried doing this:

directory = raw_input("input file directory")
ext = raw_input("input file ext")

file_list = len(glob.glob(ext))
print file_list


And my result was this:
0
which it is suppose to be 11

May I know why? And how do I specify which directory it is searching
the files extension from? I want the user to specify a directory and
it searches the particular directory for the particular file
extensions and prints the number out.
Hope you guys could help.

Thanks