trying to count files in a dir and subdirectories without the use of walk

July 18, 2022

I need to count the files in both the dir path I give and subdir within that path without the use of walk. This is as far as I’ve gotten:

import os

subfolder = True

path = ("C:\\Users\\user\\Documents\\Electronic Arts\\The Sims 4")
num = 0
def countFiles(path, subfolder=True):
    try:
        for entry in os.scandir(path):
            if entry.is_file():
                num += 1
            if entry.is_dir() and subfolder:
                yield countFiles(entry.path, subfolder)
        print (entry)
print (num)

>Solution :

import os

subfolder = True
num = 0

def countFiles(path, subfolder=True):
    global num
    for entry in os.listdir(path):
        temp_path = os.path.join(path, entry)
        if os.path.isfile(temp_path):
            num += 1
        if os.path.isdir(temp_path) and subfolder:
            countFiles(temp_path, subfolder)
    return num

num = countFiles(path)