Get absolute paths of all files in a directory

How do I get the absolute paths of all the files in a directory that could have many sub-folders in Python?

I know os.walk() recursively gives me a list of directories and files, but that doesn't seem to get me what I want.

http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html#os.path.abspath">`os.path.abspath`</a> makes sure a path is absolute. Use the following helper function:

import os

def absoluteFilePaths(directory):
    for dirpath,_,filenames in os.walk(directory):
        for f in filenames:
            yield os.path.abspath(os.path.join(dirpath, f))

If the argument given to os.walk is absolute, then the root dir names yielded during iteration will also be absolute. So, you only need to join them with the filenames:

import os

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(os.path.abspath("../path/to/dir/")):
    for file in files:
        print(os.path.join(root, file))

If you have Python 3.4 or newer you can use pathlib (or a third-party backport if you have an older Python version):

import pathlib
for filepath in pathlib.Path(directory).glob('**/*'):
    print(filepath.absolute())

Try:

import os

for root, dirs, files in os.walk('.'):
    for file in files:
        p=os.path.join(root,file)
        print p
        print os.path.abspath(p)
        print

You can use os.path.abspath() to turn relative paths into absolute paths:

file_paths = []

for folder, subs, files in os.walk(rootdir):
  for filename in files:
    file_paths.append(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(folder, filename)))

Starting with python 3.5 the idiomatic solution would be:

import os

def absolute_file_paths(directory):
    path = os.path.abspath(directory)
    return [entry.path for entry in os.scandir(path) if entry.is_file()]

This not just reads nicer but also is faster in many cases. For more details (like ignoring symlinks) see original python docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.scandir

All files and folders:

x = [os.path.abspath(os.path.join(directory, p)) for p in os.listdir(directory)]

Images (.jpg | .png):

x = [os.path.abspath(os.path.join(directory, p)) for p in os.listdir(directory) if p.endswith(('jpg', 'png'))]

from glob import glob


def absolute_file_paths(directory):
    return glob(join(directory, "**"))

Try:

from pathlib import Path
path = 'Desktop'
files = filter(lambda filepath: filepath.is_file(), Path(path).glob('*'))
for file in files:
   print(file.absolute())

I wanted to keep the subdirectory details and not the files and wanted only subdirs with one xml file in them. I can do it this way:

for rootDirectory, subDirectories, files in os.walk(eventDirectory):
  for subDirectory in subDirectories:
    absSubDir = os.path.join(rootDirectory, subDirectory)
    if len(glob.glob(os.path.join(absSubDir, "*.xml"))) == 1:
      print "Parsing information in " + absSubDir

for root, directories, filenames in os.walk(directory):
 for directory in directories:
         print os.path.join(root, directory)
 for filename in filenames:
     if filename.endswith(".JPG"):
        print filename
        print os.path.join(root,filename)

glob library will give you what you need directly:

from glob import glob
list_of_files = glob('your/directory/*')

Try This

pth=''
types=os.listdir(pth)
for type_ in types:
     file_names=os.listdir(f'{pth}/{type_}')
     file_names=list(map(lambda x:f'{pth}/{type_}/{x}',file_names))
     train_folder+=file_names