os.walk in python not running with cmd line parameter passed as path

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Hello, I needed to find the number of files in a folder on the system.

This is what i used:

file_count = sum((len(f) for _, _, f in os.walk('path')))

This works fine when we specify the path as a string in quotes, but when I enter a variable name that holds the path, type(file_count) is a generator object, and hence cannot be used as an integer.

How to solve this and why does this happen?

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