You can use os.walk()
# !/usr/bin/python
import os
directory_list = list()
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("/path/to/your/dir", topdown=False):
for name in dirs:
directory_list.append(os.path.join(root, name))
print directory_list
EDIT
If you only want the first level and not actually “walk” through the subdirectories, it is even less code:
import os
root, dirs, files = os.walk("/path/to/your/dir").next()
print dirs
This is not really what os.walk
is made for. If you really only want one level of subdirectories, you can also use os.listdir()
like Yannik Ammann suggested:
root="/path/to/my/dir"
dirlist = [ item for item in os.listdir(root) if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(root, item)) ]
print dirlist