• pathlib — Object-oriented filesystem paths
  • Basic use
  • Exceptions
  • Pure paths
    • General properties
    • Operators
    • Accessing individual parts
    • Methods and properties
  • Concrete paths
    • Parsing and generating URIs
    • Expanding and resolving paths
    • Querying file type and status
    • Reading and writing files
    • Reading directories
    • Creating files and directories
    • Copying, moving and deleting
    • Permissions and ownership
  • Pattern language
  • Comparison to theglob module
  • Comparison to theos andos.path modules
    • Corresponding tools
  • Protocols
• os.path — Common pathname manipulations
• stat — Interpretingstat() results
• filecmp — File and Directory Comparisons
  • Thedircmp class
• tempfile — Generate temporary files and directories
  • Examples
  • Deprecated functions and variables
• glob — Unix style pathname pattern expansion
  • Examples
• fnmatch — Unix filename pattern matching
• linecache — Random access to text lines
• shutil — High-level file operations
  • Directory and files operations
    • Platform-dependent efficient copy operations
    • copytree example
    • rmtree example
  • Archiving operations
    • Archiving example
    • Archiving example withbase_dir
  • Querying the size of the output terminal

See also

Moduleos

Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at alower level than Pythonfile objects.

Moduleio

Python’s built-in I/O library, including both abstract classes andsome concrete classes such as file I/O.

Built-in functionopen()

The standard way to open files for reading and writing with Python.