The OS module provides many functions to utilize the proper functionality of the operating system. os.scandir() is a method in the OS module that supports the os.DirEntry object.
This os.scandir() method helps to yield the os.DirEntry objects to the corresponding entries in a directory from the associated path. The os.DirEntry() method helps to check if the data entry is a directory or not.
os.DirEntry.is_dir(* , follow_the_symlinks = True)
It takes the following argument values.
*: These are the additional arguments. This is an optional parameter.follow_the_symlinks: The default value for this parameter will be true. If the entry is a link, then follow_the_symlinks will set to true, otherwise it will set to false.If the entry is a directory, it returns true. Otherwise, it is false.
# Import OS moduleimport os# Path to scan for directoriespath = "./" # root path# Using os.scandir() method# to scan the folder for directorieswith os.scandir(path) as iterate:# For loop to check the directoriesfor entry in iterate :#If entry is directoryif entry.is_dir() :print("(%s) is a directory." % entry.name)#Else if not directoryelse:print("(%s) is not a directory." % entry.name)
path variable.if statement checks for directories and if it results in true, then prints the name of the directory. else statement to print the name of the file, which does not turn out to be a directory.