How to get all of the immediate subdirectories in Python

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8001...

Accepted answer links:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/48030307/244...

Answer 3 links:
[glob]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/glob.h...

Answer 4 links:
[Getting a list of all subdirectories in the current directory]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9734...

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ANSWER 1

Score 255

import os
def get_immediate_subdirectories(a_dir):
    return [name for name in os.listdir(a_dir)
            if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(a_dir, name))]

ANSWER 2

Score 79

Why has no one mentioned glob? glob lets you use Unix-style pathname expansion, and is my go to function for almost everything that needs to find more than one path name. It makes it very easy:

from glob import glob
paths = glob('*/')

Note that glob will return the directory with the final slash (as unix would) while most path based solutions will omit the final slash.

ANSWER 3

Score 44

Check "Getting a list of all subdirectories in the current directory".

Here's a Python 3 version:

import os

dir_list = next(os.walk('.'))[1]

print(dir_list)

ANSWER 4

Score 21

import os

To get (full-path) immediate sub-directories in a directory:

def SubDirPath (d):
    return filter(os.path.isdir, [os.path.join(d,f) for f in os.listdir(d)])

To get the latest (newest) sub-directory:

def LatestDirectory (d):
    return max(SubDirPath(d), key=os.path.getmtime)