title: Navigating Directories and Counting files in a directory with Python
body: <p>I am fairly familiar with Python and coding in general but I do not have much experience with the parsing and directory navigation in Python. I have a file that contains some data that I wish to extract and I want to be able to count the number of files and directories in given directory. I have done a little research and I think the sys and os.path modules will be useful. Also do the commands for os.path vary across platforms(Yosemite vs. Linux. Windows)</p>