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.

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():

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'))

[jarfoss]

def dir_list_folder(head_dir, dir_name):
   dir_list = []
   cmd = "cd " + head_dir + " && find . -type d -name " + dir_name + " > /tmp/temp.txt && cd - "
   (status, output)  =  commands.getstatusoutput(cmd)
   if status != 0:
      print "Error : Failed to execute cmd : " + cmd 
   fp = open("/tmp/temp.txt")
   lines = fp.readlines()
   fp.close()
   for line in lines:
      dir_list.append(line])
   return dir_list