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:
- 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
- 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.