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:

pathlib — Object-oriented filesystem paths

Source code: Lib/pathlib.py

os.path — Common pathname manipulations

Source code: Lib/posixpath.py (for POSIX) and Lib/ntpath.py (for Windows NT).

fileinput — Iterate over lines from multiple input streams

Source code: Lib/fileinput.py

stat — Interpreting stat() results

Source code: Lib/stat.py

filecmp — File and Directory Comparisons

Source code: Lib/filecmp.py

tempfile — Generate temporary files and directories

Source code: Lib/tempfile.py

glob — Unix style pathname pattern expansion

Source code: Lib/glob.py

fnmatch — Unix filename pattern matching

Source code: Lib/fnmatch.py

linecache — Random access to text lines

Source code: Lib/linecache.py

shutil — High-level file operations

Source code: Lib/shutil.py