Fixing "PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied"

[jim2007]

So I did the same, but it is a function that returns a list of files:

import os
from typing import List

FileList = List[str]

def get_list_of_files(base_folder: str, files: FileList) -> None:
    with os.scandir(base_folder) as entries:
        for entry in entries:
            # Skip all hidden files and folders
            if entry.name.startswith('.'):
                continue

            qualified_name = os.path.join(base_folder, entry)

            # If it's a file we'll added it to the collection
            if entry.is_file():
                files.append(qualified_name)
            elif entry.is_dir():
                # If it's a folder then we'll process that as well
                get_list_of_files(os.path.join(base_folder, entry), files)

files = []
base_folder = '/Users/<user>/Development'

get_list_of_files(base_folder, files)

for file in files:
    print(file)

You pass it the base folder and an empty list and it will populate it for you.

PS - I'm just learning Python as well, but I have 30+ years of coding behind me.