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 manipulationsfileinput — Iterate over lines from multiple input streamsstat — Interpreting stat() resultsstatvfs — Constants used with os.statvfs()filecmp — File and Directory Comparisons
tempfile — Generate temporary files and directoriesglob — Unix style pathname pattern expansionfnmatch — Unix filename pattern matchinglinecache — Random access to text linesshutil — High-level file operations
dircache — Cached directory listingsmacpath — Mac OS 9 path manipulation functionsSee also
A description of Python’s built-in file objects.
osOperating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower level than the built-in file object.