Recursively listing directories

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
def recurlist(p,level):
    for item in os.listdir(p):
        if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(p,item)):
            newlevel = level + "--"
            print newlevel + item + "(d)"
            newpath = os.path.join(p,item)
            recurlist(newpath,newlevel)
        elif os.path.isfile(os.path.join(p,item)):
            newlevel = level + "--"
            print newlevel + item
      
        
p = raw_input("Please enter the path to recursively list: ")

recurlist(p,"")