List all HTML files in a directory python code not working

Question

I am trying to list all HTML files in a directory using os.walk but it returning none instead of file names

Here is my code

def read_dirctory():
    matches = []
    for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('/home/akallararajappan/www.mangalam.com/agriculture'):
        for filename in fnmatch.filter(filenames, '*.html'):
            matches.append(os.path.join(root, filename))
   return matches

What is the problem here ? I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I have 1000 html files in the directory

output:

[]

One solution I can readily suggest is that, `return` should be unindented twice... — thefourtheye, Jan 22 '14 at 11:11
What I meant is that, `return` should not be inside the loops. — thefourtheye, Jan 22 '14 at 11:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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Something like this should work. BTW there are a already a couple of questions like this.

def read_directory():
    matches =[]
    directory = '/home/akallararajappan/www.mangalam.com/agriculture'
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
        for file in files:
            if file.endswith('.html'):
                matches.append(os.path.join(root, file))
    return matches

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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answered Jan 22 '14 at 11:40

Francisco Puga

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