11. File and Directory Access

Python 2.5

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11. 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:

`os.path`		Common pathname manipulations.
`fileinput`		Perl-like iteration over lines from multiple input streams, with ``save in place'' capability.
`stat`		Utilities for interpreting the results of `os.stat()`, `os.lstat()` and `os.fstat()`.
`statvfs`		Constants for interpreting the result of `os.statvfs()`.
`filecmp`		Compare files efficiently.
`tempfile`		Generate temporary files and directories.
`glob`		Unix shell style pathname pattern expansion.
`fnmatch`		Unix shell style filename pattern matching.
`linecache`		This module provides random access to individual lines from text files.
`shutil`		High-level file operations, including copying.
`dircache`		Return directory listing, with cache mechanism.

Also see section 3.9 for a description of Python's built-in file objects.