<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>10. File and Directory Access — Python 2.7.15 documentation</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/classic.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = {
URL_ROOT: '../',
VERSION: '2.7.15',
COLLAPSE_INDEX: false,
FILE_SUFFIX: '.html',
HAS_SOURCE: true,
SOURCELINK_SUFFIX: '.txt'
};
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/sidebar.js"></script>
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
title="Search within Python 2.7.15 documentation"
href="../_static/opensearch.xml"/>
<link rel="author" title="About these documents" href="../about.html" />
<link rel="index" title="Index" href="../genindex.html" />
<link rel="search" title="Search" href="../search.html" />
<link rel="copyright" title="Copyright" href="../copyright.html" />
<link rel="next" title="10.1. os.path — Common pathname manipulations" href="os.path.html" />
<link rel="prev" title="9.9. operator — Standard operators as functions" href="operator.html" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="../_static/py.png" />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/filesys.html" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/copybutton.js"></script>
</head>
<body role="document">
<div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation">
<h3>Navigation</h3>
<ul>
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
<a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"
accesskey="I">index</a></li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"
>modules</a> |</li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="os.path.html" title="10.1. os.path — Common pathname manipulations"
accesskey="N">next</a> |</li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="operator.html" title="9.9. operator — Standard operators as functions"
accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li>
<li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt=""
style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li>
<li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li>
<li>
<a href="../index.html">Python 2.7.15 documentation</a> »
</li>
<li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" accesskey="U">The Python Standard Library</a> »</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="document">
<div class="documentwrapper">
<div class="bodywrapper">
<div class="body" role="main">
<div class="section" id="file-and-directory-access">
<span id="filesys"></span><h1>10. File and Directory Access<a class="headerlink" href="#file-and-directory-access" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>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:</p>
<div class="toctree-wrapper compound">
<ul>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="os.path.html">10.1. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">os.path</span></code> — Common pathname manipulations</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="fileinput.html">10.2. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fileinput</span></code> — Iterate over lines from multiple input streams</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="stat.html">10.3. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">stat</span></code> — Interpreting <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">stat()</span></code> results</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="statvfs.html">10.4. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">statvfs</span></code> — Constants used with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">os.statvfs()</span></code></a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="filecmp.html">10.5. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filecmp</span></code> — File and Directory Comparisons</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="filecmp.html#the-dircmp-class">10.5.1. The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dircmp</span></code> class</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="tempfile.html">10.6. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">tempfile</span></code> — Generate temporary files and directories</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="glob.html">10.7. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">glob</span></code> — Unix style pathname pattern expansion</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="fnmatch.html">10.8. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fnmatch</span></code> — Unix filename pattern matching</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="linecache.html">10.9. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">linecache</span></code> — Random access to text lines</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html">10.10. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">shutil</span></code> — High-level file operations</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#directory-and-files-operations">10.10.1. Directory and files operations</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#copytree-example">10.10.1.1. copytree example</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#archiving-operations">10.10.2. Archiving operations</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="shutil.html#archiving-example">10.10.2.1. Archiving example</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="dircache.html">10.11. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dircache</span></code> — Cached directory listings</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="macpath.html">10.12. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">macpath</span></code> — Mac OS 9 path manipulation functions</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<dl class="last docutils">
<dt>Section <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bltin-file-objects"><span class="std std-ref">File Objects</span></a></dt>
<dd>A description of Python’s built-in file objects.</dd>
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#module-os" title="os: Miscellaneous operating system interfaces."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">os</span></code></a></dt>
<dd>Operating system interfaces, including functions to work with files at a lower
level than the built-in file object.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation">
<div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
<h4>Previous topic</h4>
<p class="topless"><a href="operator.html"
title="previous chapter">9.9. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">operator</span></code> — Standard operators as functions</a></p>
<h4>Next topic</h4>
<p class="topless"><a href="os.path.html"
title="next chapter">10.1. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">os.path</span></code> — Common pathname manipulations</a></p>
<h3>This Page</h3>
<ul class="this-page-menu">
<li><a href="../bugs.html">Report a Bug</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2.7/Doc/library/filesys.rst"
rel="nofollow">Show Source</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search">
<h3>Quick search</h3>
<form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get">
<div><input type="text" name="q" /></div>
<div><input type="submit" value="Go" /></div>
<input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" />
<input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" />
</form>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div>
<div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation">
<h3>Navigation</h3>
<ul>
<li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
<a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"
>index</a></li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index"
>modules</a> |</li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="os.path.html" title="10.1. os.path — Common pathname manipulations"
>next</a> |</li>
<li class="right" >
<a href="operator.html" title="9.9. operator — Standard operators as functions"
>previous</a> |</li>
<li><img src="../_static/py.png" alt=""
style="vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -1px"/></li>
<li><a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> »</li>
<li>
<a href="../index.html">Python 2.7.15 documentation</a> »
</li>
<li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="index.html" >The Python Standard Library</a> »</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="footer">
© <a href="../copyright.html">Copyright</a> 1990-2018, Python Software Foundation.
<br />
The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation.
<a href="https://www.python.org/psf/donations/">Please donate.</a>
<br />
Last updated on Apr 29, 2018.
<a href="../bugs.html">Found a bug</a>?
<br />
Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.5.6.
</div>
</body>
</html>
