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. os.path — Common pathname manipulations
• 11.2. fileinput — Iterate over lines from multiple input streams
• 11.3. stat — Interpreting stat() results
• 11.4. statvfs — Constants used with os.statvfs()
• 11.5. filecmp — File and Directory Comparisons
  • 11.5.1. The dircmp class
• 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
  • 11.10.1. Example
• 11.11. dircache — Cached directory listings
• 11.12. macpath — Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions