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Python for File Systems

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6:09 with Kenneth Love

Once again, Python makes it easy to automate tasks. In this video let's take a look at how to search for files and directories.

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    project files or favorite rock operas together in one place. 0:00
    Often, when we're creating software for working with directories in files, 0:01
    we wanna be able to search for particular files and directories. 0:04
    Luckily, Python makes this pretty easy for us. 0:07
    So I've imported os. 0:09
    I'm gonna do os.listdir, and you can see all of the files and 0:11
    directories that are currently in this directory. 0:15
    Those dir method gives us back everything that's in the directory. 0:18
    By default, it uses the current working directory, 0:22
    but we can provide it a path right here if you wanted to. 0:24
    And it'll tell you everything that's in that path. 0:27

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