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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>10. 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File and Directory Access<a class="headerlink" href="#file-and-directory-access" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>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:</p> <div class="toctree-wrapper compound"> <ul> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="os.path.html">10.1. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">os.path</span></tt> — Common pathname manipulations</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="fileinput.html">10.2. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fileinput</span></tt> — Iterate over lines from multiple input streams</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="stat.html">10.3. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">stat</span></tt> — Interpreting <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">stat()</span></tt> results</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="statvfs.html">10.4. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">statvfs</span></tt> — Constants used with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">os.statvfs()</span></tt></a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="filecmp.html">10.5. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filecmp</span></tt> — File and Directory Comparisons</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="filecmp.html#the-dircmp-class">10.5.1. The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dircmp</span></tt> class</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="tempfile.html">10.6. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">tempfile</span></tt> — Generate temporary files and directories</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="glob.html">10.7. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">glob</span></tt> — Unix style pathname pattern expansion</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="fnmatch.html">10.8. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fnmatch</span></tt> — Unix filename pattern matching</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="linecache.html">10.9. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">linecache</span></tt> — Random access to text lines</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html">10.10. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">shutil</span></tt> — High-level file operations</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#directory-and-files-operations">10.10.1. Directory and files operations</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#copytree-example">10.10.1.1. copytree example</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#archiving-operations">10.10.2. Archiving operations</a><ul> <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#archiving-example">10.10.2.1. Archiving example</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="dircache.html">10.11. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dircache</span></tt> — Cached directory listings</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="macpath.html">10.12. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">macpath</span></tt> — Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="admonition-see-also admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <dl class="last docutils"> <dt>Section <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bltin-file-objects"><em>File Objects</em></a></dt> <dd>A description of Python’s built-in file objects.</dd> <dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#module-os" title="os: Miscellaneous operating system interfaces."><tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">os</span></tt></a></dt> <dd>Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower level than the built-in file object.</dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="operator.html" title="previous chapter">9.9. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">operator</span></tt> — Standard operators as functions</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="os.path.html" title="next chapter">10.1. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">os.path</span></tt> — Common pathname manipulations</a></p> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a Bug</a></li> <li><a href="../_sources/library/filesys.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%"> Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="os.path.html" title="10.1. os.path — Common pathname manipulations" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="operator.html" title="9.9. operator — Standard operators as functions" >previous</a> |</li> <li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt="" style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li> <li><a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li> <li> <a href="../index.html">Python 2.7.5 documentation</a> » </li> <li><a href="index.html" >The Python Standard Library</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> © <a href="../copyright.html">Copyright</a> 1990-2019, Python Software Foundation. <br /> The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation. <a href="http://www.python.org/psf/donations/">Please donate.</a> <br /> Last updated on Jul 03, 2019. <a href="../bugs.html">Found a bug</a>? <br /> Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.1.3. </div> </body> </html>
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