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Asked: 2026-06-15T20:37:45+00:00

Is it possible for the user to input a specific directory on their computer,

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Is it possible for the user to input a specific directory on their computer, and for Python to write the all of the file/folder names to a text document? And if so, how?
The reason I ask is because, if you haven’t seen my previous posts, I’m learning Python, and I want to write a little program that tracks how many files are added to a specific folder on a daily basis. This program isn’t like a project of mine or anything, but I’m writing it to help me further learn Python. The more I write, the more I seem to learn.
I don’t need any other help than the original question so far, but help will be appreciated!

Thank you!

EDIT: If there’s a way to do this with “pickle”, that’d be great! Thanks again!

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  1. Editorial Team

    os.walk() is what you’ll be looking for. Keep in mind that this doesn’t change the current directory your script is executing from; it merely iterates over all possible paths that stem from the arguments to it.

    for dirpath, dirnames, files in os.walk(os.path.abspath(os.curdir)):
    print files

# insert long (or short) list of files here
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