I want to translate a "Read directory" code from php to python

Question

I want to translate a code that read files (or other directories) from directory and you can work with it. I have the code originaly on PHP, but I want to translate to Python. My knowledge of python is so very basic, but I guess I can understand your answers (In any case, some comments are welcome)

This is my PHP code:

$dir = opendir("directoryName");
while ($file = readdir($dir)){
  if (is_dir($file)){
    echo "[".$file . "]<br />";
    //You can do anything with this result
  }
  else{
    echo $file . "<br />";
    //You can do anything with this result
  }
}

As I said, I want to translate that into Python.

====Edit==== I try something like that:

import os
os.listdir("directoryName")

Result is:

['test.txt']

Is an array? how to use that in that case?

Greetings!

Answer 1

Here is one possible approach to do that in Python:

import os

# Use listdir to get a list of all files / directories within a directory 
# and iterate over that list, using isfile to check if the current element
# that is being iterated is a file or directory.
for dirFile in os.listdir('directoryName'):
    if os.path.isfile(dirFile):
        print('[' + dirFile + ']')
    else:
        print(dirFile)

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