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

下面是一个简单的单行命令，我觉得很有用:

print int(os.popen("ls | wc -l").read())

def count_em(valid_path):
   x = 0
   for root, dirs, files in os.walk(valid_path):
       for f in files:
            x = x+1
print "There are", x, "files in this directory."
return x

摘自本文

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

如果您将使用操作系统的标准shell，则可以比使用纯python方式更快地获得结果。

Windows示例:

import os
import subprocess

def get_num_files(path):
    cmd = 'DIR \"%s\" /A-D /B /S | FIND /C /V ""' % path
    return int(subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True))

import os

def count_files(in_directory):
    joiner= (in_directory + os.path.sep).__add__
    return sum(
        os.path.isfile(filename)
        for filename
        in map(joiner, os.listdir(in_directory))
    )

>>> count_files("/usr/lib")
1797
>>> len(os.listdir("/usr/lib"))
2049