how to check if the given path contains a subfolders and are not empty in python?

Question

I want to check if the given path contains folders and files and if the folders are empty or not.

i wrote a chunk of script that list all files and folders but the problem that if the folder is empty it will display it as a file. while this is not correct.

code:

src = "I:/"

path = os.listdir(src)
try:
    for files in path:
        # print(files)
        if os.path.isdir(files):
            print("folder name :****{}****".format(files))
        else:
            print("file name: {}".format(files))
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

what i am doing wrong and how to check if the subfolders are empty or not ?

Answer 1

You need os.walk() to do this.

src = "I:/"
for dirpath, dirnames, files in os.walk(src):
    if files:
        print("Directory {0} has files in it".format(dirpath))
        print("Files are : {0}".format(files))
    else:
        print("Diretory {0} is empty".format(dirpath))