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
  • 11.1.1. Basic use
  • 11.1.2. Pure paths
    • 11.1.2.1. General properties
    • 11.1.2.2. Operators
    • 11.1.2.3. Accessing individual parts
    • 11.1.2.4. Methods and properties
  • 11.1.3. Concrete paths
    • 11.1.3.1. Methods
  • 11.1.4. Correspondence to tools in theosmodule

https://rednafi.github.io/digressions/python/2020/04/13/python-pathlib.html

• 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
  • 11.5.1. Thedircmpclass
• 11.6.tempfile - Generate temporary files and directories
  • 11.6.1. Examples
  • 11.6.2. Deprecated functions and variables
• 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
  • 11.10.1. Directory and files operations
    • 11.10.1.1. copytree example
    • 11.10.1.2. rmtree example
  • 11.10.2. Archiving operations
    • 11.10.2.1. Archiving example
  • 11.10.3. Querying the size of the output terminal
• 11.11.macpath - Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions