[Python] Python: List containers in the Azure Data Lake Storage

I'm trying to list the containers inside a specific directory within Azure Data Lake Storage account, but it doesn't seem to be any function that can handle this:

Here is my hierarchy:

assets
root
container1
container2
container3
container4
container5


I wrote the following function that gets the path, and it shows all of the containers even inside the containerX. What I want to achieve is to just put the name of the containers in assets/root without having other containers deeper than containerX.

import os
from azure.storage.filedatalake import DataLakeServiceClient

connection_string = os.getenv("AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING")
data_lake_service_client = DataLakeServiceClient.from_connection_string(conn_str=connection_string)

filesystem_client = data_lake_service_client.get_file_system_client(file_system="assets")

paths = filesystem_client.get_paths(path="root")

for path in paths:
if path.is_directory:
print("\t" + path.name)


Its quite strange that there is no functions like

get_containers(path="") or list_containers(path="")
​

to just list them

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