This is a Python package to quickly count the number of files and directories in a given path. Optionally you can count recursively and include hidden files in the total.
This package is a wrapper around fast-file-count by Christopher Schultz
. Credit for the initial version
belongs to Christopher Schultz, I wrote the Python wrapper, converted the
Windows code to use builtin functionality, and packaged it up. See the file
src/c_count.c for the other contributors and see the commit history of
this package on GitHub for my exact changes.
Installation can be done easily with pip:
$ pip install ffcountThere is a command line application called ffcount, which recursively
counts files and directories:
$ ffcount
See ffcount -h for options.
The package can also be used as a Python library, using the ffcount
function. This function returns a tuple (number_of_files, number_of_dirs)
and it can be used as follows:
>>> from ffcount import ffcount
# count everything under the current path
>>> ffcount()
(521013, 43012)
# count without hidden files
>>> ffcount(hidden=False)
(234012, 12082)
# use a different path
>>> ffcount('/tmp')
(81, 10)Note that ffcount counts links as files, even if they point to a
directory. In some cases, this explains the discrepancy with other ways of
counting.
To obtain the full function documentation, simply run:
>>> import ffcount
>>> help(ffcount)The original C code by Christopher Schultz was licensed under the Apache License 2.0. This package is therefore licensed under this license as well.