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10. File and Directory Access¶
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:
- 10.1.
os.path
— Common pathname manipulations - 10.2.
fileinput
— Iterate over lines from multiple input streams - 10.3.
stat
— Interpretingstat()
results - 10.4.
statvfs
— Constants used withos.statvfs()
- 10.5.
filecmp
— File and Directory Comparisons - 10.6.
tempfile
— Generate temporary files and directories - 10.7.
glob
— Unix style pathname pattern expansion - 10.8.
fnmatch
— Unix filename pattern matching - 10.9.
linecache
— Random access to text lines - 10.10.
shutil
— High-level file operations - 10.11.
dircache
— Cached directory listings - 10.12.
macpath
— Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions
See also
- Section File Objects
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.