Python code to search a folder(not file) inside another folder

Vishy147

Hi, I am new to python. I have to devlope a small for code for getting the path of a particular folder, that is given as input to the code, in the other folder. Basically i have to search a folder, not file, inside another folder. I work on windows platform. Can anybody help me.

boxfish

Hi,
I'm not sure what you're trying to do. It sounds like some of the functions in the os.path module might be useful for this.

bvdet

The following returns a list of the folders named "dir_name" found under "head_dir". The folder and its subfolders are recursively searched.

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 import os
 
def dir_list_folder(head_dir, dir_name):

    """Return a list of the full paths of the subdirectories

    under directory 'head_dir' named 'dir_name'"""

    dirList = []

    for fn in os.listdir(head_dir):

        dirfile = os.path.join(head_dir, fn)

        if os.path.isdir(dirfile):

            if fn.upper() == dir_name.upper():

                dirList.append(dirfile)

            else:

                # print "Accessing directory %s" % dirfile

                dirList += dir_list_folder(dirfile, dir_name)

    return dirList
 
if __name__ == '__main__':

    for item in dir_list_folder(r'D:\SDS2_7.1C', 'mem'):

        print item

Example output:
>>> D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs\610_CC4_71\mem
D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs\613_Ironstone_Bank\mem
D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs\614_Embraer\mem
D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs\615_Ironstone_OK\mem
D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs\616_Greenway\mem
D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs\617_Villa\mem
D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs\618_Johnston\mem
D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs\619_Okaloosa_Walton\mem
D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs\Great_Wolf\mem
>>>

The following does the same thing, but uses os.walk():

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 import os
 
def dir_list_folder(head_dir, dir_name):

    outputList = []

    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(head_dir):

        for d in dirs:

            if d.upper() == dir_name.upper():

                outputList.append(os.path.join(root, d))

    return outputList
 
print '\n'.join(dir_list_folder(r'D:\SDS2_7.1C\jobs', 'mem'))

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