[Python] Trying to use enumarate to list my folders as a menu, however its not finding the...

apologies this one is going to be super trivial but I am tired and can't see the error I am making.

So I am using enumerate to grab a list of all my sub-folders inside a folder I have and display it as a menu for the user to choose one. However when I try to get a value from the user, I keep stuck inside the loop as the option is not recognized as one of the keys.

This is my code:

import os

path = "/media/user/msu"

subfolders = [f.name for f in os.scandir(path) if f.is_dir()]

#print(subfolders)

menu = {index: value for index, value in enumerate(subfolders, start=1)}

selection = 0

while selection == 0:

options = menu.keys()

for entry in options:

print(entry, menu[entry])


selection = input("Please Select:")

if selection in menu.keys():

break

else:

print("Unknown Option Selected!")
selection = 0


everything runs fine until I ask for user input. After that no matter what option chosen, I get "Unknown Option Selected" printed and the loop continues

Can anyone help? (sorry if this is a basic mistake)

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