traverses directory recursively and displays files

[perfringo]

You have hint, why don't you use it?

I would do:

>>> import os
>>> help(os.walk)
Help on function walk in module os:

walk(top, topdown=True, onerror=None, followlinks=False)
    Directory tree generator.
    
    For each directory in the directory tree rooted at top (including top
    itself, but excluding '.' and '..'), yields a 3-tuple
    
        dirpath, dirnames, filenames
    
    dirpath is a string, the path to the directory.  dirnames is a list of
    the names of the subdirectories in dirpath (excluding '.' and '..').
    filenames is a list of the names of the non-directory files in dirpath.
    Note that the names in the lists are just names, with no path components.
    To get a full path (which begins with top) to a file or directory in
    dirpath, do os.path.join(dirpath, name).

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