• 11.1.pathlib — Object-oriented filesystem paths
  • 11.1.1. Basic use
  • 11.1.2. Pure paths
    • 11.1.2.1. General properties
    • 11.1.2.2. Operators
    • 11.1.2.3. Accessing individual parts
    • 11.1.2.4. Methods and properties
  • 11.1.3. Concrete paths
    • 11.1.3.1. Methods
• 11.2.os.path — Common pathname manipulations
• 11.3.fileinput — Iterate over lines from multiple input streams
• 11.4.stat — Interpretingstat() results
• 11.5.filecmp — File and Directory Comparisons
  • 11.5.1. Thedircmp class
• 11.6.tempfile — Generate temporary files and directories
  • 11.6.1. Examples
  • 11.6.2. Deprecated functions and variables
• 11.7.glob — Unix style pathname pattern expansion
• 11.8.fnmatch — Unix filename pattern matching
• 11.9.linecache — Random access to text lines
• 11.10.shutil — High-level file operations
  • 11.10.1. Directory and files operations
    • 11.10.1.1. copytree example
    • 11.10.1.2. rmtree example
  • 11.10.2. Archiving operations
    • 11.10.2.1. Archiving example
  • 11.10.3. Querying the size of the output terminal
• 11.11.macpath — Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions

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.