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:

• os.path — Common pathname manipulations
• fileinput — Iterate over lines from multiple input streams
• stat — Interpreting stat() results
• filecmp — File and Directory Comparisons
  • The dircmp class
• tempfile — Generate temporary files and directories
• glob — Unix style pathname pattern expansion
• fnmatch — Unix filename pattern matching
• linecache — Random access to text lines
• shutil — High-level file operations
  • Example
• macpath — Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions

也參考

Section File Objects

A description of Python’s built-in file objects.

Module os

Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower level than the built-in file object.