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:
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11.1.
pathlib— Object-oriented filesystem paths - 11.2.
os.path— Common pathname manipulations - 11.3.
fileinput— Iterate over lines from multiple input streams - 11.4.
stat— Interpretingstat()results -
11.5.
filecmp— File and Directory Comparisons -
11.6.
tempfile— Generate temporary files and directories - 11.7.
glob— Unix style pathname pattern expansion - 11.8.
fnmatch— Unix filename pattern matching - 11.9.
linecache— Random access to text lines -
11.10.
shutil— High-level file operations - 11.11.
macpath— Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions
See also
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Moduleos - Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower level than Python file objects.
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Moduleio - Python’s built-in I/O library, including both abstract classes and some concrete classes such as file I/O.
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Built-in functionopen() - The standard way to open files for reading and writing with Python.
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