How to get all of the immediate subdirectories in Python

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))]

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.

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)

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)