The modules described in this chapter deal with disk files and directories. For example, there are modules for reading the properties of files, manipulating paths in a portable way, and creating temporary files. The full list of modules in this chapter is:
os.path
— Common pathname manipulationsfileinput
— Iterate over lines from multiple input streamsstat
— Interpreting stat()
resultsstatvfs
— Constants used with os.statvfs()
filecmp
— File and Directory Comparisons tempfile
— Generate temporary files and directoriesglob
— Unix style pathname pattern expansionfnmatch
— Unix filename pattern matchinglinecache
— Random access to text linesshutil
— High-level file operations dircache
— Cached directory listingsmacpath
— Mac OS 9 path manipulation functionsSee also
A description of Python’s built-in file objects.
Module
os
Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower level than the built-in file object.
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