The Python package audeer collects small tools and functions that deal with common tasks. For example, it incorporates functions for handling file paths, using multi-threading, or showing progress bars.

The package is lightweight, and has the small tqdm package as it's only external dependency.

Have a look at the installation and usage instructions as a starting point.

Code example, that lists all WAV files in the data folder:

import audeer

files = audeer.list_file_names("data", filetype="wav")