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.
