11. File and Directory Access

Python 3.4

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:

See also

Module os
Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower level than Python file objects.
Module io
Python’s built-in I/O library, including both abstract classes and some concrete classes such as file I/O.
Built-in function open()
The standard way to open files for reading and writing with Python.