10. 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:

* 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

See also:

  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.