10. File and Directory Access — Python documentation

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 — Interpreting stat() results
• 10.4. statvfs — Constants used with os.statvfs()
• 10.5. filecmp — File and Directory Comparisons
  • 10.5.1. The dircmp class
• 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
  • 10.10.1. Directory and files operations
    • 10.10.1.1. copytree example
  • 10.10.2. Archiving operations
    • 10.10.2.1. Archiving example
• 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.