File and Directory Access

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File and Directory Access

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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:

.. toctree::

pathlib.rst os.path.rst fileinput.rst stat.rst filecmp.rst tempfile.rst glob.rst fnmatch.rst linecache.rst shutil.rst macpath.rst

.. seealso::

Module :mod:os Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower level than Python :term:file objects <file object>.

Module :mod:io Python's built-in I/O library, including both abstract classes and some concrete classes such as file I/O.

Built-in function :func:open The standard way to open files for reading and writing with Python.