Question

I am trying to iterate through a directory and output if the current item is a file or a directory. This is the code I am trying to use

import os,time

dir = os.listdir("V:\\Inbox/")

for item in dir:
    if os.path.isdir(item):
        print "is Directory"
    else:
        print "is file"

Answer 1

You need to add the base dir to the path before passing it to isdir.

import os

basedir = "V:/Inbox/"
dir = os.listdir(basedir)

for item in dir:
    itempath = os.path.join(basedir, item)
    if os.path.isdir(itempath):
        print "is Directory"
    else:
        print "is file"

By the way, usually some print statements are a good thing to do before posting on SO (even though I don’t say no to easy rep from questions like these :P).