10. 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:

10.1. os.path — Common pathname manipulations
10.2. fileinput — Iterate over lines from multiple input streams
10.3. stat — Interpreting stat() results
10.4. statvfs — Constants used with os.statvfs()
10.5. filecmp — File and Directory Comparisons
- 10.5.1. The dircmp class
10.6. tempfile — Generate temporary files and directories
10.7. glob — Unix style pathname pattern expansion
10.8. fnmatch — Unix filename pattern matching
10.9. linecache — Random access to text lines
10.10. shutil — High-level file operations
- 10.10.1. Directory and files operations
  - 10.10.1.1. copytree example
- 10.10.2. Archiving operations
  - 10.10.2.1. Archiving example
10.11. dircache — Cached directory listings
10.12. macpath — Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions