一个答案与pathlib和没有加载到内存的整个列表:

from pathlib import Path

path = Path('.')

print(sum(1 for _ in path.glob('*')))  # Files and folders, not recursive
print(sum(1 for _ in path.glob('**/*')))  # Files and folders, recursive

print(sum(1 for x in path.glob('*') if x.is_file()))  # Only files, not recursive
print(sum(1 for x in path.glob('**/*') if x.is_file()))  # Only files, recursive

这就是fnmatch非常方便的地方:

import fnmatch

print len(fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(dirpath), '*.txt'))

详情:http://docs.python.org/2/library/fnmatch.html

def directory(path,extension):
  list_dir = []
  list_dir = os.listdir(path)
  count = 0
  for file in list_dir:
    if file.endswith(extension): # eg: '.txt'
      count += 1
  return count

卢克的代码重新格式化。

import os

print len(os.walk('/usr/lib').next()[2])

对于所有类型的文件，包括子目录(Python 2):

import os

lst = os.listdir(directory) # your directory path
number_files = len(lst)
print number_files

只有文件(避免子目录):

import os

onlyfiles = next(os.walk(directory))[2] #directory is your directory path as string
print len(onlyfiles)

我找到了另一个可能是正确的公认答案。

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(input_path):    
for name in files:
    if os.path.splitext(name)[1] == '.TXT' or os.path.splitext(name)[1] == '.txt':
        datafiles.append(os.path.join(root,name)) 


print len(files)